Re: USAGE: No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 30, 2006, 12:55 |
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On 5/30/06, Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> On 30/05/06, Dana Nutter <sasxsek@...> wrote:
> > But then again, what would happen to "there", "their" and "they're"?
We have no trouble determining meaning from context in speech, so it's
not much of a hardship to do likewise in reading.
> The fact that there misspelt so often without significant impediment
> to understanding suggests to me that their candidates for respelling.
> And once wear all used to spelling them the same...
That's cute, but [YAEPT WARNING] merging"wear" (rhymes with "hair")
with "we're" (rhymes with "here") is a bit counterintuitive over
thisaway.
As for Esperanto spelling reform, did nobody notice the "j/k" (just
kidding) on the original responder's post? Man, it takes nothing to
get you guys going. :)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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