Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 30, 2004, 11:47 |
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En réponse à Joe :
>>Except that we don't fine (yet ;) ) people for making spelling
>>mistakes ;)) .
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>Or the language we're using now. Which is, I'd suppose, one of the most
>Magellic languages in the world.
I wonder which is more Maggellic, English or Tibetan... Irish Gaelic is
out: too phonemic an orthography ;) .
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En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
>Except that the tolerance for poor spelling appears to be quite great in the
>anglophone (anglographe?) world. If we cooked and ate people who abused
>English
>spelling, our BMI's would skyrocket, and the 'Net would pretty much empty.
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> Andreas
BMI?
As for the Net being less crowded, I'm not sure it would be such a bad
thing to get rid of the ill-spellers, since they are usually trolls,
astrosurfers, or other pests people keep complaining about ;) .
But note that I wrote "fine". You don't get slaughtered and eaten for a
spelling mistake. They reserve that for recidivists ;))) .
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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