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Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

From:Ed Heil <edheil@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 8, 1999, 22:53
OK, let me pre-emptively apologize to the Conlang audience for this
inappropriate message.  It should not have been sent in a public
forum.

Ed


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Ed Heil wrote:

> 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > edheil@postmark.net > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Roland Hoensch wrote: > > > 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. > > > >