Re: Interesting Experiment

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:27:00 +0000 (UTC), dwolffxx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David
Wolff) wrote:

>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?

Except for those that aren't. Anyway, English is already perfectly
regularly spelled, pronounced and spoken. It is, in all respects, the
supreme, perfect and unsurpassed auxlang for the present world.

Padraic

>Thanks --
>
>David
>

;)))))

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