Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

I'm just jumping in this conversation with utter disregard for, uh, not
sounding completely dumb.
But if the spelling change suggested by somebody (I can't remember who, my
other computer died a day or three ago so I don't have e-mail back that far)
isn't that much different, why bother implementing it at all?
I learned to read pretty fast and have been good with spelling all my life,
though I still can't spell exercise or exaggerate or lisence without
squinting at them, as many have before me, wondering why I can't remember
them, and spell wierd wrong every time because I think ei looks wayerd.
Anyway, my question is, how much more efficient is a system that doesn't
seem to change that many things?
Aj prsunlj lajk funetik speliq, as any sort of spelling reformed the English
way (ie 'long a' for e, 'long i' for i) looks utterly ridiculous to me, and
I lament the utter irregularity of it, given that Jeff and I don't agree on
phonetic spelling in Tiri'n and we speak the same dialect of English.
My sentences are far too long and I far too ignorant!

-Kendra

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