Re: Regularized Inglish

Nik Taylor wrote:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > Besides, if you're going to distinguish homophones, why not be
> > consistent?  Why not distinguish the two very different meanings
> > of the word written <lie>?
>
> True.  And those should be made distinct.  I'd be in favor of a reform
> that distinguished homophones like the two {lie}'s.  I don't think they
> went far enough when they standardized spellings to fix some homophones
> like flour/flower.
This is obviously evidence of fundamental assumptions about
what we want in language -- I prefer a closer representation of the
phonological structure of the language, and you want more attention
paid to the semantic side.  Neither is better, but both are assumptions,
and so can't be decided by any rational process or discussion.