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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". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it. --me, on far too many occasions