Re: CONLANG Digest

On Second Life of Tenderness of Red Cat, Barry Garcia wrote:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Of course, English will never do spelling reform.  Even on "Star Trek",
> >500
> >years in the future they still spell English with modern American
> >spellings ;)
> >
> >     *Muke!
>
> No no, you are wrong ;). It's 300 years in the future. I bet in 500 years
> they've corrected English's horrendous orthographic system. Either that or
> they speak something else :)
>
Why?  They would use it as Chinese use their logographic Hanji(sp?) today.
Those glyph they will be using would be just an aproximation of the sounds
they spoke (those who spoke Future English) or just arbitrary glyph for
those who only can read English but speak some other language.

Of course, if they wheren't using their universal translators you wouldn't
been able to listen to them in Modern English or I in Modern Spanish, but
they are speaking just something different and using that _old_ English
logographic orthography.

-- Carlos Th