Re: Tho (was: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences))

David Peterson:
> <<"Tho" (not "tho'"), like "yr" (your), "shd" (should), "wd" (would), etc. is
> an old conventional abbreviation
[...]
> >>
> This much is true.  I can remember the autobiography of Benjamin
> Franklin.  It was hideously annoying with those awful abbreviations.
> I'd just like to point out that just because lots of people do
> something or because people have done something in the past doesn't
> make that something right or desireable.
Indeed not! But if we're now discussing the conlangy issue of the pros and
cons of orthographic abbreviations, I'd point out that they save time in
writing, save space on the page, and arguably yield no net increase in
the complexity of the orthographic system.
--And.