Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 4/8/01 12:25:40 AM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:
>
><< That was Japanese, actually.  Turkish *does* have /u/.  But it *is*
>unusual to have /M/ without /u/.  Supposedly, /u/ became /M/ because it
>was considered polite in the court to avoid lip-rounding.  (Tho, why
>that didn't also affect /o/, I don't know) >>
>
>Wow!  That's cool!  ThoUGH, I did have a question: What's with the "tho"'s?
>I was just wondering.  Everyone seems to spell it that way on this list.
Peer Pressure! Well, actually, in my case it's simply since "tho"/"tho'" is
shorter than "though", plus that I dislike those mute {gh}s that're so
common in English. If aesthetics were to dictate, English is in dire need of
a spelling reform, IMNSHO.

                                                        Andreas
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