Re: USAGE: Language revival

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