A Parable

Five men got together and decided to form the alphabet. When it was completed, it was a great thing. They could spell any word they wanted and communicate a lot better.

Ten years later, one guy decided to leave the group, because he didn't like some of the spellings of the words with the original alphabet. Instead of using a hard C to spell words, he wanted to use a "K."

Five years went by and one of the guys from the original group decided that he didn't like the letter "C" being both a soft C and a hard C, so he left the group and had his own alphabet, only there were no hard C's.

At the same time, two other guys left the original group, because they no longer agreed with the original alphabet. They felt that the first half of the alphabet up to “M” was no longer necessary. So they were left with “N” to “Z.”

Two years later, one of the guys from the “N” to “Z” group realized that they couldn’t spell as many words as they used to with the original alphabet, so he wanted to start a reform. He added “H” to “M” back in, but got rid of “T” through “Z.” The two men parted ways, one with an alphabet of “N” to “Z,” and the other with an alphabet of “H” to “S.”

The four guys who broke away from the original group and started their own had lots of problems trying to spell words that they could easily spell at the beginning.

Only the guy who kept all of the letters as originally intended had the fullness of the alphabet and had no problems spelling and communicating.