Re: English spelling reform

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