Re: Atlantean Corpus

andrew wrote:

> Am 07/09 06:39  Thomas R. Wier yscrifef:
> >
> > > But apparently Michael J. Fox needed more help than the others.
> >
> > And he is Canadian, no?
> >
> > The presumption that it has anything to do with America, rather
> > than with how English speakers in general would have to deal
> > with their noticeably unphonemic orthography, is dubious IMHO.
> >
> Fox also suffers from a debilitating disease - Parkinson's disease I
> believe.  It could be that rather than he is North American which is why
> he needed more help.  It did lead him to retiring from Spin City.
Just in case I was misunderstood:  I wasn't suggesting that his Canadianness
was responsible for his needing more help than others.  I agree with your
analysis:  that seems more likely for him in particular.  It just seemed to me
that the salient point about the system was not that it was American, but that
it was Anglophone.

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