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Re: English spelling reform

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Monday, October 14, 2002, 11:40
Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Tristan wrote: > > I believe that |etc| is, for most readers of English, a single > orthographic > unit that refers directly at the word/epression in question without > invoking > any intermediate layer of orthographic/pronunciation rules - effectly an > alphabetic logogramme (or Latin Kanji, if you prefer!).
Ah, but isn't the point of a spelling reform to abolish such complexities? After all, a word such as 'though' doesn't really envoke much in the way of an intermediate layer, does it? Tristan