Re: English spelling reform
| From: | Tristan <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 17, 2002, 12:14 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>Tristan scripsit:
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>>Just a note to say that English, that fanatical borrower that it is,
>>uses 'no.' from Italian 'numero' as its abbrev. for 'number'. Unlike
>>most abbrevs that end in the last letter of the original, it still gets
>>a fullstop to prevent confusion with 'no' (although inflected forms e.g.
>>'nos' don't get a fullstop.
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>Except to the (linguistically) conservative lot in North America, who
>put periods at the end of all abbreviations, period. (And if "period"
>was good enough for Cicero, it's good enough for us -- "full stop", indeed;
>sounds like a football position!) None of this business of writing
>"Mr" instead of "Mr.".
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I have my doubts as to whether Cicero had spoken English ;) ... And
'full back' sounds like a football position. 'Fullstop' sounds like a
piece of punctuation. 'Period' sounds like a period of time at school
when you have a class (or not) ... or something girls have. So there :P
Oh, and Christophe (I so wanted to write 'Pingu the Penguin' there, and
then 'Patrick'... I'm confusing my groups of people... and seem to think
that Christophe's name begins with a 'P'. Have you considered becoming
'Pristophe', Pristophe?) writes Britishly, so my rules are the accurate
ones for the circumstance. So there again :P
Tristan
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