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Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, May 29, 2004, 17:07
Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> Christophe Grandsire wrote: > > > En réponse à jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM : > > > > > >> > It must be because for the Pictics, spelling > >> > Maggel correctly is a matter of honour, and bad spelling can mean > >> become an > >> > outcast ;))) . > >> > >> Quite like the French, only more so, in fact. :-) > > > > > > Except that we don't fine (yet ;) ) people for making spelling > > mistakes ;)) . > > > Or the language we're using now. Which is, I'd suppose, one of the most > Magellic languages in the world.
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. Andreas