Re: USAGE: No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong)
| From: | Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 30, 2006, 16:52 |
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on 5/30/06 8:41 AM, Paul Roser at pkroser@NETZERO.NET wrote:
> My own proposal is to base any spelling reform on the general dialect of
> Early Modern English (circa pre-1750) prior to the major dialectal split
> between American and British English - regularizing the spelling as much as
> possible while retaining some of the etymological character of the current
> spelling.
Omigod, are you serious? Seems that with a proposal like that everyone
would range in sound from nasal New Englanders to the late Dr. Carl Sagan!
;)