Re: 1. YAESR

--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
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> [SEMI-SATIRE]
> The logical thing to do is to base any spelling
> reform on the other
> languages 'pon this isle. And since Scottish Gaelic
> isn't what you'd
> call easily spelt, Welsh it is.
I thoroughly enjoyed your satire spelling reform,
however (honoring a long tradition of reform
warmongering and infighting) I have to point out
everything that's wrong with your system, and why my
satirical reform is far superior.

To begin with, making a spelling reform phonetic is
just madness! Maddness, I tell you.  After all, the
language is pronounced in so many different way it's
really pointless to try to canonize one such
pronunciation in the reformed spelling.  Therefore, in
the spirit of smilies (emoticons) I believe the words
of English should be drawn rather than spelled.  For
example, we all know that :) means "smile".  But we
could also spell "house" <= (turn it on its side, like
you do for "smile" to read it).  "man" could be o|<
while "woman" would be o8|<.  o^< is "walk" while oZ<
is "run". (See the arm motion of running so deftly
drawn with "Z"?)  o|^ is "kneel" while o\^ is "pray".
[] is "box", |¦| is "layer cake", <@>-| is
"microphone", and obviously @)>~§ is "insurance claims
adjuster", while ^v~{|} could be nothing other than
"local area network interface adapter hub". Just to
demonstrate how self-evident all of this is, I leave
it to you to read this simple sentence: ($# %@/< *+^<>
(*( *=%^ ||<~ == [>--<.  See how easy that was?

--gary