Re: Interesting Experiment

In article <1190831859.068716.140370@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 <alanduncan80@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> Why don't we get one of the people at the Academie Francais,
> responsible for French spelling, to use the same reasoning to design a
> spelling system for English (one that takes into account all the
> sensible objections to reform)?
> 
> I _don't_ mean to apply a French spelling system to English. I mean
> ask them to apply their skills to help create a spelling system for
> English that is as regular as the French spelling system. A Briton
> could not do this -- such an undertaking is athwart his intellectual
> tradition.

"As regular as the French spelling system"?  Do you mean that every
other letter is silent?

Thanks --

David

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