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To: Spellfix

Bad analogy. The system is bad for dyslexics, not for the rest of us. You want to return to bloodletting and leaches in order to accommodate the few that it will help, rahther than to improve the system for the majority that it won't. Your reasoning is so lgoically flawed that pointing out the obvious accomplishes nothing. Of course, your entire starting proposition already demonstrated this, so I don't know why I even bothered.

Actually, I'm not that interested. I'm not concerned either. The ebonics lobby is probably bigger than the dyslexic lobby. The rest of us will watch you battle over the best way to butcher the language in your effort to reduce us to a Tower of Babble.


118 posted on 07/02/2004 6:48:28 PM PDT by bluefish (Disclaimer for Pukin: I do not believe Freepers should die for arguing with me.)
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To: bluefish

Bad analogy. The system is bad for dyslexics, not for the rest of us...

Yes, it is bad for the rest of us. We take two years to master, just partially, what takes others two weeks to master completely. We waste two years. And we get mugged by people who are illiterate when they could be productive members of society. There are 20 million or so who could read with a decent spelling system, who now do not. Most are not criminals but many are on the welfare rolls, or earn less and pay less taxes than they could. And who pays the extra taxes to cover all this? The rest of us, and that *is* bad.


121 posted on 07/02/2004 11:34:22 PM PDT by Spellfix
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