Re: Aesthetics, etc. was Re: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Robert Hailman wrote:
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> >David Peterson wrote:
> >>
> >> In a message dated 4/8/01 2:12:01 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> >>
> >> << If aesthetics were to dictate, English is in dire need of
> >> a spelling reform, IMNSHO.
> >>  >>
> >>
> >> I will defend those "gh"'s to the death!
> >
> >Yeah! If aesthetics were to dicate, I'd keep English exactly as it is.
> >Maybe throw in a few random umlauts, and a handful more "gh"s.
>
> Right. Perhaps bring back thorn into common use. Tis such a
> pretty letter!
Aye, thorn! How could I forget thorn?

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Robert