At 21:01 -0500 1.8.1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>BP Jonsson wrote:
>> Esp. for us who are not native speakers of English. It is almost an insu=
lt
>> 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 "=3D" for "is".
>
It isn't phonemic at all. Just a further perversion of the already
perverse English spelling + some logograms. Interesting=F6y the equals sign
derives from a Tironic note for "est"!
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