Re: Swedish alphabet [was: Re: Spanish alphabet]

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> Also, don't forget that the very idea of standardized spellings is a
> relatively recent phenomenon.  The English, e.g., didn't really have any
> conception of "standard" English until around the mid to late 18th
> century, and so there's no particular reason to expect the Swedes
> to be particularly any more enlightened on that matter. :)
>
Yes! Free spelling for all, is what I want - Dutch poetry became a
lot worse with the first spelling law, and in Charya everybody
spells as they were taught by their parents. On the other hand, you
won't catch a Chinese man of letters during the Sung dynasty adding
strokes on his own account ;-).


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