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Re: USAGE: Language revival

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 24, 1999, 20:31
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Charles wrote:

> He also spoke of phonological Drifts of Fashion that threatened > to split English into Dialects, the Usefulness of etymologically > correct Spelling, etc, and the only weird Thing in it for me was > the consistent Capitalization of all common Nouns as in German, > but I discovered this Weirdness to disappear somewhere in the > Course of reading his more famous Work; thus my own Recommendation > to reform our Spelling would be to accept those of Swift ... > and learn to run-on enormous Sentences and Paragraphs.
LOL. I used to have a history teacher in fifth grade who would shout random words during his LECTURE just to MAKE sure we were PAYING attention. This capitalizing all nouns things reminds me of him. ;) I'm consistantly against any attempt to reform English spelling or grammar at all. I like the irregularity, the difficulty, and the strangeness of our language. It makes such wonderful poetic tricks possible. It's why I got turned off of Glosa. I couldn't write a decent poem in it. (Same with Esperanto, although that had some promise) Too damned orderly. --Patrick