Re: English spelling reform

Tristan scripsit:

> I have my doubts as to whether Cicero had spoken English ;)
Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit!

>  And
> 'full back' sounds like a football position. 'Fullstop' sounds like a
> piece of punctuation.
A private joke.  My mother the English major (but without regiment) always
insisted that she had dated a "full stop" in high school, no matter what
my father and I said to dissuade her.

> [I] seem to think
> that Christophe's name begins with a 'P'. Have you considered becoming
> 'Pristophe', Pristophe?)
Obviously that would be in a conworld in which the P-Italics conquer Italy and
Western Europe, and then their language breaks up into descendants.
Latin remains only a a single inscription of dubious provenance:
Manios med fhefhaked Numasioi.

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
"The exception proves the rule."  Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves
my theory."  Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts
the rule to the proof."  But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."

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