Re: English diglossia (was Re: retroflex consonants)

shtaving Douglas Koller:
>Sarah writes:
>
 For advocates on the other side of the
>divide, it's like the time you're "wasting" or "losing" while
>learning to read in school could be spent on developing
>ground-breaking theories in biophysics, reading James Joyce instead
>of Dr. Seuss, or modernizing the motherland. It's not a concern I
>share.
>
No matter how much you "reform" spelling, James Joyce is still going to be
unreadable...

Pete Bleackley