Re: Odd orthography

Nik Taylor wrote:

> > The only things I can think of that are similar are the way that we
> > used to write America as "Amerika" in the '70s to imply that the U.S
> > was a fascist state; and I once saw someone write "America(tm)" to
> > critique the overly capitalistic bent of American society.
>
> I've seen "wymyn" used by some feminists.  And then there's the famous
> distinctions between American and English orthography, with no
> connection differences or similarities in pronounciation.
That might be acceptable, because the origin of "woman" is actuallyan OE =
compound
<w=EEfmann> [which was naturally masculine in gender ;-) ],
but one political-correctism that I detest is "herstory", based on the fa=
lse
belief that the writing of history, having naturally been dominated by
men for the last several hundred years because of the culture in which
it was written, was a compound of <his> and <story>, the story of what
happened to men.  Whatever the case, this false folk-etymology is used
with what are IMO class-warfare overtones often, and so I am always
wary of the intentions of the people who use it.


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