| From: | Roland Hoensch <hoensch@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 8, 1999, 17:12 |
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. ----- Original Message ----- From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 4:31 PM Subject: Re: F=E4nyl=E4jikyl Inglyx> John Cowan wrote: > > I don't see it. I say that dividing written English into national > > languages would be a disaster, and you don't make any countervailing > > arguments. > > Indeed, dividing ANY widespread language would be a disaster, not just > English. > > -- > "Old linguists never die - they just come to voiceless stops." - > anonymous > http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files > http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html > ICQ: 18656696 > AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor >