fonetics

[deird1]

So – spelling ríform.
Wyl y am mostlí in févor of éh words spelling matching thí wéh it saunds, my mén ríaksion tú thí possibiliti of spelling ríform is… wel, dred.

Mehnlí this is bikoz y ríli don’t wont tú lern éh hol nu spelling sistem. But also… y lyk aur wírd and komplicéted spelling, and how strénj it is. Y lyk bíing ébl to sí orl thí words that ar klírli from Jerman, or Latin, or Old Inglish, and hau thér spelling stil riflekts that. It’s word gíkery at its fynest – and y don’t wont tú giv that up.

(Interestingli, aur komplicéted words sím tú bí spelled much mor akkuratli than aur simpul wuns. Hau od.)

Comments

[velvetwhip]

Theodore Roosevelt was a proponent of spelling reform. It's one of his few failures.


Gabrielle

[vass]

I remember reading somewhere that one of the newspaper headlines when he was finished was THRU!

[velvetwhip]

That rings a bell with me, too.


Gabrielle