Typing “The” so Troublesome-Let's Try “?”
A restaurant owner, Paul Mathis who comes from Melbourne Australia invents the brand new letter “?” which can represent the word "the". Now he is going about selling this fantastic idea to Apple to let him to promote this app in App store.
"Is this so called invention important?" Paul Mathis said this in the Sydney Morning Herald which urges him to give an interview. "I'll say ' no ', is this going to alter the world? Not really."
"But I do believe this thing just like other things we can find in our daily lives which are useful for our human being, right?"
Mr Mathis is an owner of more than 20 restaurants and hotels in Australia who is in a career spanning 3 decades, is known as "Mr Midas" for his strong ability to create prosperous venues. In Melbourne-the place he lives now, Mr Mathis owns and runs 6 restaurants.
However, in order to expand the food business, the boss has invested AUS $38,000 (￡23,500) in the new app, but so far has been rejected by Apple. The boss, Mr Mathis hopes that he can make a change in their mind. Point out that reduces the word "the"-the most used word in English-of one character would be helpful for Fackbook or Twitter and swift typing.
“The word 'and’ is only the fifth-most used word in English and it has its own symbol – the ampersand. ” said Mr Mathis. “Isn’t it time we accorded the same respect to 'the’?”
"The, Be, To, Of, And." These are the top five utilized commonly words in the English language. The ampersand has at times been used as the 27th letter of the English alphabet.
“The Benedictine monks developed the modern version of the ampersand in the Middle Ages, when they were hand-copying sacred texts.
"I will not put myself in the same league 'cause I not so great as the prophets, but who knows? Maybe in the new hundreds years of time people will be amazed that there was a time we don't need to use 'th' in the word 'the'."
"Is this so called invention important?" Paul Mathis said this in the Sydney Morning Herald which urges him to give an interview. "I'll say ' no ', is this going to alter the world? Not really."
"But I do believe this thing just like other things we can find in our daily lives which are useful for our human being, right?"
Mr Mathis is an owner of more than 20 restaurants and hotels in Australia who is in a career spanning 3 decades, is known as "Mr Midas" for his strong ability to create prosperous venues. In Melbourne-the place he lives now, Mr Mathis owns and runs 6 restaurants.
However, in order to expand the food business, the boss has invested AUS $38,000 (￡23,500) in the new app, but so far has been rejected by Apple. The boss, Mr Mathis hopes that he can make a change in their mind. Point out that reduces the word "the"-the most used word in English-of one character would be helpful for Fackbook or Twitter and swift typing.
“The word 'and’ is only the fifth-most used word in English and it has its own symbol – the ampersand. ” said Mr Mathis. “Isn’t it time we accorded the same respect to 'the’?”
"The, Be, To, Of, And." These are the top five utilized commonly words in the English language. The ampersand has at times been used as the 27th letter of the English alphabet.
“The Benedictine monks developed the modern version of the ampersand in the Middle Ages, when they were hand-copying sacred texts.
"I will not put myself in the same league 'cause I not so great as the prophets, but who knows? Maybe in the new hundreds years of time people will be amazed that there was a time we don't need to use 'th' in the word 'the'."
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