Re: USAGE: di"f"thong (was: Tetraphthongs, Triphthongs, Dipht..)

On 29/05/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
(on non-standard spellings)
>
> 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!).
And quite offensive too, because why shouldn't someone know the
standard spelling of a word and purposefully choose to depart from it.
(And is full of issues anyway; the standard spelling of "color"
hereabouts is "colour", yet I purposefully choose to spell it "color"
nevertheless. In fact, considering the reactions I get because of it
from some people, I think it's about equally as adventurous as
spelling "laugh" as "laff". So seeing as I'm regularly told I spell
"color" wrongly, does that mean I didn't graduate from high school?)

[Mind, I don't much like his revised spelling scheme either... I like
my -ive ending :(]

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Tristan.