[r9etb]

Here we note a violation of the Individualist Premise.

Well, I must admit that this is the first time I've come across a person who says that "ph" is a tool of the looters, or whatever.

Of course, your trying to force us to use "f" instead of "ph" would qualify as the same sin.

If you want to be logically consistent, why not just ditch spelling rules altogether -- to do otherwise is to smash the individual.

[G. Stolyarov II]

Mr. r9etb: Of course, your trying to force us to use "f" instead of "ph" would qualify as the same sin.

Mr. Stolyarov: I am FORCING no one. By suggesting the employment of a voluntary reform within every INDIVIDUAL's orthografy, I do not utilize the coercive apparatus of the State in any manner. Do you call yourself an Objectivist? If you do, you should be ashamed for not having made the elementary distiction between force and persuasion.

Rules of spelling themselves should be freed from the coercive grasp of the government (by putting an end to public schools, for example), though governments should be free to establish linguistic policies pertaining to their OWN official documents, which may serve as vehicles of suggestion for linguistic change, but not forcible standards.

[Petronski]

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

From now on, spell fish GHOTI.