Re: English spelling reform

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>I couldn't agree more (but wait first that I work on the verbs ;)))) ).
>
Oh, come on, you've had how many years to work on this? This was one of
you childhood conlangs, wasn't it? :)

>Note that someone else already had the same idea, and the language he came with is
>in some respects not unlike Maggel: see http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/
>and look at the end of the page for the essay nr. 13: Politically Incorrect
>English :)) .
>
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.

>Maggel is giving me a lot of work.
>
Presumably punishment for having so complicated an orthography ;)

Tristan

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