Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

J Y S Czhang scripsit:

>     Thee bestest addvice dhat Aye've godden ista read James Joyce ALOUD
> (praefurrubbly width a mangl'd Irish brogue).
Absolutely.  My father read it aloud wonderfully in his 19th-century
Irish-American accent (quite different from current Irish accents);
he was born in the U.S. in 1904, but probably never heard non-Irish English
(except on the radio) until he went to college in 1928 or so.  He was
a dialect switcher, and used a more ordinary American accent most of the time.

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