Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

How is a statement that English is branching off into different
languages turn into contempt?  And sadly if I were to stop
writing in English, while I could still read what I was writing;
You probably could not.

I one started writing Latin and Italian the same, would they
become the same language?  Are the various Englishes the
same just because nobody bothered to properly revise their
spelling after they branched off?



----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Heil <edheil@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: F=E4nyl=E4jikyl Inglyx


> You know, Roland, if you really have such contempt for the English
> language and its speakers as your posts seem to indicate, we wouldn't
> mind one bit if you expressed that contempt by ceasing to write in
> English or on English-language lists.  You would not be missed.
>
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> Roland Hoensch wrote:
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> > English is no more one language than the Romance tongues.  If
> > English learned to use the alphabet (a system designed to allow
> > people to write as they pronounce) properly, the difference would
> > be quite quite obvious between it's many different versions.
> >
> > Dropping letters here and there, some words having different number
> > of syllables, etc. are just the beginning of a much larger English
> > breakaway.  It won't one man or a spelling system that breaks English
> > apart--English is already doing that for itself.
> >
> >
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