Re: more English orthography
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Friday, May 19, 2000, 2:58 |
Roger Mills scripsit:
>
> Douglas Koller wrote:
> >My two cents: I don't consider myself that old, but I guess I'm a
> >curmudgeonly old traditionalist. Words like "thru", "lite", and "nite" are
> >so intimately attached to (gimmicky) advertising in my mind ... that aside
> from
> >experimental poetry, I'd have a hard time dealing with such spellings in a
> >serious piece of prose. >
Regularized Inglish uses "thrue", "light", and "night".
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