Re: Advanced English to become official!

Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
>Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:56:57 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Problem is, Pascal's German, so it's bound to be imperfect.
>>
>> Oh my, what an ugly arrogant attitude >:(
>> I can really hear the contempt in your voice... Why don't you say right
>> away: "Germans are lower than dirt."
>
>I don't think it would have to do with your ethnicity, merely with that
>you are working with a language non-native to you.  If an American-English
>speaker attempted a spelling reform of German, similar remarks could be
>expected.
Another problem is that it seems to be a pronunciation reform as well, with
the changes conveniently based around speaking English with a German accent.
Either that or this eliminates distinctions in spelling that remain in
pronunciation -- but again the distinctions that "don't need" to be kept in
spelling are again German-skewed (s/z, T/t, a/@ ...). A person could, for
example, make a spelling reform based on speaking English with the Hong Kong
accent so frequently heard here in Vancouver (using <wif> for "with" instead
of AE's <wit> etc.) but this would also seem to go beyond spelling.
It's not a bad attempt (for sure it's *visually* less ugly than most
spelling reforms I've seen), but don't expect it to catch on among the
native speakers.

M

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