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From: "Peter Smith" <psmith AT gil DOT com DOT au>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:47:44 +1000
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Subject: Re: djgpp/allegro - help! - quick question

Um, at xe risk of being xrown off xis list for posting irelevant 
long postings, I am advokaiting that the ingliy speeking wurld adopt 
xe folowing caings to speling: (this is off semios-l)

> With thanks to Tom Collins:
> 
>        Alan C. Harris, Ph. D.          TELNOS: main off:  818-677-2853
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> From: Tom Collins <TCOLLINS AT CCIT DOT ARIZONA DOT EDU>
> 
> spelling reform????????
> 
> In a letter to THE ECONOMIST, M. J. Shields of Jarrow, England, points
>   out that George Bernard Shaw, among others, urged spelling reform,
>   suggesting that one letter be altered or deleted each year, thus
>   giving the populace time to absorb the change.  Shields writes:
> 
> For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be
>   replaced by either "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be
>   part of the alphabet.  The only kase in which "c" would be retained
>   would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.  Year 1
>   might well reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take
>   the same konsonant, wile Year 3 night well abolish "y", replasing it
>   with "i", and Iear 4 might fiks the "g-j" anomali wonse and for all.
> 
> Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear, with
>   Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or
>   so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
>   Bai Ier 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi possibl tu meik ius ov thi
>   ridandant letez "c", "y", and "x"--bai now jast a memori in the maindz
>   ov ould doderez--tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispectivli.
> 
> Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a
>   lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
>   Haweve, sins xe Wely, xe Airiy, and xe Skots du not spik Ingliy, sei
>   wud hev to hev a speling siutd tu xer oun lengwij.  Xei kud, haweve,
>   orlwiz lern Ingliy az a sekond lengwij at skuul! -- Iorz feixfuli,
>   M. J. Yilz.
> 
> 

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