Re: USAGE: No rants! (USAGE: di"f"thong)

li [Tristan Alexander McLeay] mi tulis la

> On 30/05/06, Dana Nutter <sasxsek@...> wrote:
> ...
> > This is already fairly common with product names.  Advertising and
> > marketing people seem to love using things like "kwik",
> "rite", "tite",
> > "thru", "tuff", etc. when thinking up names for their warez.
>
> Not warez I hope! I think those are usually named things like
> "Micr0s0ft 0ffic3 2003 (crax0red)".
Yes, the techie crowd seems to like playing games too with words like
"warez", "byte", "nybble", etc.


> > But then again, what would happen to "there", "their" and "they're"?
>
> 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, the fact that their
> spelt the same will be even less of an impediment to understand then
> it is now.
I can see "there" and "their" being spelled (or spelt) the same but
"they're" will lose its indicator as a contraction.  Maybe we could have
something like "dher" and "dhe'r" ("dhey" + "ar")?


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