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.
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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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> >