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>Seems to me that's how it works at the moment: nobody has any difficulty
>reading these e-mails-- but if we were to be writing them in our individual
>varieties, Omigod.
>
>If every region develops its own orthography, then the English-speaking
>world will end up like the Romance/Germanic/Slavic/ Indic worlds; and there
>goes "English" as an international vehicle.
Then maybe we won't have to worry about English's gradually assimilating all
the other languages in the world anymore. [English is essentially the Borg.]
*Muke!
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