An Objective Filosofy of Linguistics

The Rational Argumentator ^ | January 5, 2004 | G. Stolyarov II

[MineralMan]

"Well, this would certainly qualify as a hafazard theory...."

I bow to your skills. I think your post makes an excellent end to this thread.

BTW, have you been to the link? Most amusing, indeed.

I've always wondered, though, why anyone who thought they had something serious to say would choose to place a website on geocities.

[Johnny Gage]

Well that's just PHAT.

[r9etb]

(Psssst. That dictionary only pretends to be a product of free enterprise. In reality, it's a nefarious government plot.)

[Polybius]

...the Romans, suffered from a plethora of orthografic misrepresentations. ......Nor was there a letter “f,” despite the presence of a need to furnish the sound now represented by it, ....... The letter “f” entered the English language from the Germanic side of its origins,

Wrong.

Roman denarius with a reverse honoring the allegory of FELICITAS

Roman denarius with a reverse honoring the allegory of FIDES

Roman denarius with a reverse honoring the allegory of FORTVNA

[MineralMan]

Oops. Another error exposed. How dare you!?! [grin]

[Old Professer]

I've had enough ghilosoghy to last me a lightime.

[possible]

And the world was made when I was born, And the world is mine to win.

And you reveal your true name to be Narcissus!

May God help you before you die. For you shall surely die.

[MineralMan]

"And you reveal your true name to be Narcissus!

May God help you before you die. For you shall surely die."

That poem was a quote from a previous message. It in no way represents my philosophy. Please read messages more carefully.

[js1138]

objectively employing my mind, I pronounce this a load.

[Right Wing Professor]

I am unaware that there is ANY government involvement in the development of spelling rules.

Theodore Roosevelt once tried to introduce a 'simplified spelling', and for a period it was used in government correspondence.

Even he couldn't get it to catch on.

[MineralMan]

It appears to me that the original (well, maybe not so) poster has fled the arena, taking his single orthographic change with him in his back pocket.

[possible]

That poem was a quote from a previous message. It in no way represents my philosophy. Please read messages more carefully.

Aaaahhhhhhhhh!!!

Please accept my apology! I intended the reply for the original poster of the poem. After reading the thread, I went back. And, on seeing the poem, I clicked too quick.

[MineralMan]

"Please accept my apology! "

Not a problem.

[r9etb]

In case you wondered what Teddy Roosevelt sounded like.

(Other voices available here)

[Henchman]

Froff, I luved Theodor, dat was phriken kewl!

[Right Wing Professor]

Thanks for the link. Roosevelt's biographers describe him as having had a squeaky voice, but in the mp3 he sounds rather normal (albeit with an upper-class northeast accent).

[nicollo]

Theodore Roosevelt once tried to introduce a 'simplified spelling', and for a period it was used in government correspondence. Even he couldn't get it to catch on.

His exec. order to the printing office to use "simplified spelling" lasted about a week. It was ridiculed.

At least TR had a sense of humour about it... As part of a naval parade the President reviewed, journalists pasted a huge sign on their boat that read, "PRES BOT" -- TR thought it was hilarious.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Time to cook some vermicelli and listen to Dvorak's cello conerto.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Have you ever considered that you ought to focus your mental energy on something a bit more useful than promoting the extinction of "ph"?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Ghoti spells fish if one pronounces gh as in enough, o as in women and ti as in motion.

Not if you use the usual rules of English orthography and pronunciation. "Gh" is never pronounced as an "f" at the beginning of a syllable. "O" is only pronunced as a short "i" in a single word "women" and nowhere else. "Ti" is never pronunced as an sh; "tion" may get the pronuciation "shun."