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A Call For Simpler Spelling
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Posted on 07/06/2006 7:02:08 AM PDT by Millee
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To: Bigg Red
Some words can be changed, such as those cited, but a huge change can never occur because of regional differences in pronunciation especially involving vowel sounds in many words, e.g., ice, check, cash. Bingo. The main difficulty in adopting a universal pronuciation-based spelling system is that there is no universal pronuciation.
Also, as another noted, the spellings of our words often reveal their lineages and allow literate people to figure out what unfamiliar words mean, or see the connection between them.
SD
To: SoothingDave
LOl, that's pretty clever Dave:)
Becky
To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
It is, but I didn't write it. I've actually seen it written earlier as an EU mandate. Obviously someone re-wrote it when the Chrysler merger happened.
Still funny, though.
SD
To: Millee
Americans doen't aulwaez go for whut's eezy ? witnes th faeluer of th metric sistem to cach on.Bad analogy. The metric system isn't easier. See Freedom 2 Measure.
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posted on
07/06/2006 9:13:24 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Schnucki
Snort!
Oh yeah. We live at 415 Spruce Street!
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posted on
07/06/2006 9:32:26 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: Still Thinking
"Bad analogy. The metric system isn't easier. See Freedom 2 Measure."
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
To: Millee
You'd think this man would have something better to do with his time...
To: socal_parrot
So did Melville Dewey (founder of the cataloging system public libraries still use today). He simplified his own first name to "Melvil".
To: eraser2005
Hey, it's better than femto-dicklencths per megawhosis.
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posted on
07/06/2006 10:27:17 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: discostu
>Actually the move to point-and-click was about capturing the home market. Corporations didn't mind the difficult computer interface . . .
No. You're not seeing
the big picture. LONG before
ease-of-use made news
for home machines, Wang
revolutionized office
work with their systems.
Every company
was trying to duplicate
Wang's penetration
of the corporate world.
All the graphic elements
of home systems first
appeared in elite
corporate machines like the Star,
research systems like
the Smalltalk machines
and Lisp Machines targeting
defense contractors.
The home market was
a natural follow-on
to all the work done
to expand the Wang
success through the corporate world.
That's where the bucks were
To: windcliff
To: LongElegantLegs
Publik ejakashun ping. That's Edgumakashun.
You're spelling it wrong..
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posted on
07/06/2006 11:17:04 AM PDT
by
Experiment 6-2-6
(Admn Mods: tiny, malicious things that glare and gibber from dark corners.They have pins and dolls..)
To: stylecouncilor
To: theFIRMbss
The home market was a natural follow-on to all the work done to expand the WangI love it when my Wang gets expanded.
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posted on
07/06/2006 12:23:23 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Still Thinking
>a natural follow-on to all the work done to expand the Wang
>>I love it when my Wang gets expanded
To: Still Thinking
>I love it when my Wang gets expanded
In another thread,
I got to put together
this pic and these words:
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To: SoothingDave
Also, as another noted, the spellings of our words often reveal their lineages and allow literate people to figure out what unfamiliar words mean, or see the connection between them.
**
So true. Knowing those roots has helped me on many occasions.
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posted on
07/06/2006 2:27:04 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Never trust Democrats with national security.)
To: dead
Math would be alot easier if everything equaled seven.
&&
You mean it doesn't? No wonder I always have trouble with math.
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posted on
07/06/2006 2:30:53 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Never trust Democrats with national security.)
To: Still Thinking
Bad analogy. The metric system isn't easier.
&&&
Actually, it is. It is just difficult for us because we have always used the American/English system, but SI units make a lot more sense when one is converting from one unit to another. For example, figuring out how many millimeters that x meters equals just requires moving of the decimal point -- no paper or electronic calculations needed -- whereas going from inches to feet requires division that many people can't do in their head.
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posted on
07/06/2006 2:40:45 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Never trust Democrats with national security.)
To: Millee
A timly artical! I have long ben intrestid in speling reform, as words ar very importent to me and making them understandible to everone shood bee given hi priorty.
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