Re: English is a crazy language

>===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List
>Other first-stage reformed words, most of these involving removed silent
>"gh": fite, laff, ot or aut (ought), eit (eight), coff, troff, caut
>(caught), alright (currently non-standard for "all right"), furlow,
>enditement (endictment), ruff.
Kindly not "ot" or "aut" for "ought".  Both are ugly.  Especially since it's
so rare as a standalone, just respell the whole construct: "otta".

I agree that "eit" is too ambiguous.  just make it '8' ;)

Also, I thought there was a difference between "alright" and "all right", one
being an expletive ("all right, we'll do it your way") and the other an
adjective ("are you alright?"  "he's an alright kind of guy".)  (of course
according to thou it should be 'alrite' anyway ;)

>> 13) They were too close to the door to close it.
>
>The first would could be spelled "closse", analogous to German's use of the
>letter ß (or ss).
I feel weird about respelling that, as they seem to be different inflections
of the same word.

>Seriously, I would publish what you wrote, really.
I'd advise against it ;)  I don't have the book on hand to check but I believe
it's a quote from Richard Lederer's book _Crazy English_.

     *Muke!
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