Re: English notation

>>
>>IMHO the only successful way for a wholesale reform of English (rather than
>>regularizing present spelling) is to adopt a _phonemic_ approach which
>>accommodates all mainstream varieties of English.
Tristan:

>Tom! Pay thee attention! These two paragraphs say exactly what I wanted
>to, but had difficulty doing so, for some reason.
Yes; I think the confusion occurred because my original posting was just
meant to offer a minor "improvement" on Christian's suggestion; and I think
you took me to be advocating an English spelling reform based on a phonetic
transcription of American English pronunciation, which was not even on my
mind. I don't think it was Christian's intent, either, although his
transcription scheme clearly has that look to speakers of British English.

>And, I wish to make this very clear, it was never, ever, ever my
>intention to offend you.
Understood, and no offense taken. I was just a little bewildered trying to
discover what you were objecting to. I think I've got the picture now, and
have no hard feelings whatsoever.

Cheers, Tom

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Tom Tadfor Little               tom@telp.com
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Telperion Productions           www.telp.com
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