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Aside from linguists, archaeologists, and archaeolinguists, Earthlings are not aware that the Harmian alphabet lacks the letters h, a, r, and m. Naturally, Earthlings would not know this, since a cosmic app translates automatically into a selected Earthling language, in this case English. If you ask me it’s a sick joke, a perverse planetary editorial. What are we saying: eliminate those letters and we find comity, peace on Harm, good will toward Harmlings?

The calculated omission of these four letters insults any self-respecting diphthong, digraph, ligature, phoneme, or grapheme. Worse, it perpetuates a legacy, a mythos, centered on “harm” even as it struts and pretends to deny harm.

How can we Harmlings reverse this? How might we recalibrate our alphabetical history, alphabetical present moment, and alphabetical future?

The solution is so easy as to be laughable.

Our subversion literally (for once, literally means literally, not figuratively) is as easy as A-B-C, or in our case, h, a, r, m. 

The revolution begins by reinserting those four letters back into the slots they once occupied, eons ago. 

If they say, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step,” then let us confidently declare, “The rewriting of history begins with one letter.” 

Or: “Our sentence is commuted one letter at a time.”

Try: “The alphabet deserves all its letters.”

And: “Harmlings, alphabetize. You have nothing to lose but your apostrophes.”