>>John Vertical wrote:
>>Yes, it is something of a reform. I've seen multiple spelling
>>reform pages suggest that spelling /f/ as <f> would be a good
>>place to start little by little, and I agree to some extent. (You
>>may have also noticed me using spellings such as "laff"
>>or "enuff", which I hope everyone can agree to be improvements.)
>Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> wrote:
>To the extent that they make me have to stop and interpret an
>unfamiliar word and determine that it's a deliberate departure from
>common practice, it's not. It's somewhat similar in effect, though
>not magnitude, to someone arbitrarily deciding to spell /&/ with
><aleph>. Stumbling block for readers.
My initial reaction is similar. However, my first thought is that
either English is not the L1 of the writer or that he did not
graduate from high school (although this latter is not always a
guarantee, at least in many American school systems!).
Charlie