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From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, August 2, 1999, 2:01
BP Jonsson wrote:
> Esp. for us who are not native speakers of English. It is almost an insult > to us! Note: a more consistently phonemic spelling would be OK with me, > but NN's stuff is just a show-off...
It doesn't seem to be purely phonemic, as I've seen him use logograms like "2" for "to", and "=" for "is". -- "[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." -- William Caxton http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor