Re: BP's & my reformed English spellings (was: RE: English notation)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 2, 2001, 21:12 |
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At 13:47 2001-07-02 +0100, And Rosta wrote:
>My scheme represents my ideal reform, a balance of
>ease & learnability + brevity + needful etymologicality, but it is too
>radical to catch on, so I would follow John in supporting Regularized
>English as a more sellable reform.
Indeed, but even RI would need some updating. Particularly I would like to
throw out all the present "gh" spellings so that "gh" could be used for
words like "ghet". OTOH if one begins tampering with it one will
inevitably end up with conflicting reforms...
/BP 8^)>
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