On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 12:48 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > We should have gone all the way to simplified spelling. > > Surely you've seen that internet "joke" about simplified spelling, where > the silent e gets dropped, and y's that sound like an i get replaced by > an i, and the k sound of c is replaced by k, etc? Soon, the sample > paragraph is pretty much unintelligible. Somewhat amusing. Sorry I don't > have a link.
It's unintelligible because of the way we've been trained. Seriously, though, some way to distinguish between long and short vowels still must be used, so that joke paragraph (which I also remember seeing) is a /reducto ad absurdum/. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "I'll call you women instead of girls, just so long as I get paid more than you do." Tom Lehrer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
