Re: USAGE: Language revival

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:14:38 -0500, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

>Patrick Dunn wrote:
>> This is why it's
>> slightly annoying to see people spell "through" as "thru" -- we don't
>> "read" (Or sound out) t-h-r-o-u-g-h, but we have to "read" (sound out)
>> t-h-r-u.
>
>Even better proof, homophones like they're/their/there, I and many
>others find it annoying when they're used wrongly, like "There car".
I guess in a few cases like these, written and spoken English are really
distinct "dialects". Perhaps one reason it's annoying is that properly
spelled English can be read much faster than speech, but if words that
sound the same are used wrongly, you have to imagine the words spoken
before you can understand them. If we spoke a language that was spelled
phonetically (or rather phonemically), we'd already be accustomed to =
having
to sort out the various homophones the same as we do when listening to
speech.

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