On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:07:25 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. I found three versions. Here is my favorite: http://www.speedybar.ch/witze/jokes2000/spelling.html > 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/. I agree. And the resulting text is not so unintelligible if you are used to phonetic spelling. Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
