English-teachers will no longer be the (probably one of the) last remaini=
ng
poor souls who have to remind children that rhyming words do not always
look the same and words that look the same do not always rhyme. (as they
more logically do in most [even] near-phonetically spelled languages)
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerald Koenig <jlk@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: F=E4nyl=E4jikyl Inglyx
> >
> >Founylorjykyl Englix
> >Fdnyldjikyl Inglyx
> >
> >Does Your version still disagree with mine?
> >
> >Unfortunately, yes.
> >
> >I have
> >
> >Founylorjykyl Inglix
> >(foh-nuh-lodj-uh-kuhl ing-glish)
> >Isn't your suggestion of ...
> >
> >> Regional dialects would either slowly vanish or adopt non-official
> >> spellings of their own.
> >
> >... (a significant factor in) how we came to our current fudged-up
english
> >orthography to begin with?
> >
> >You have laudable aims and I want to help if I can, but I fear that
finding a
> solution that actually works significantly better than the mishmash
currently in
> >use (including general acceptance by the public) may be beyond our gra=
sp.
>
> Well I agree that it won't be taking over English any time soon, but
> possibly it would be used by novelists. At least I hope so as I recoil
> at reading dialectical spellings, Mark Twain etc is a pain for me. I
> have a friend who wrote a whole novel with dialectical english, it's
> good to read for sense and flavor but those alarm bells of "spelling
> eror!" keep going off in my head and I can't concentrate on the
> narrative. It should be great for poetry as well. The images will still
> be there undistorted.
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> Jerry | Without careful communication
> Gerald Lea Koenig | jlkatnetcomdotcom There is boundless demonization.
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