sexist language
Root Boy Jim
rbj at nav.icst.nbs.gov
Thu Dec 1 03:29:59 AEST 1988
I wrote:
? >In return we give up fonetik pronunciation, but I would argue for doing
? >violence in that arena to rid the language some of the more rediculous
? >spellings.
? Sorry, e hoa, can't do her. Written English is very nearly in the place
? of written Chinese: a notation shared by people whose _spoken_ languages
? are not mutually comprehensible. YOUR phonetic spelling is MY unsolvable
? puzzle. (For an English-speaker, trying to learn the IPA from an
? American textbook is harder than you might think.) This is one reason why
? correct spelling is good manners: spell-as-you-speak-and-mumble doesn't
? work too well when the person at the other end doesn't know your dialect.
Uh, oh, don't left this guy drive. He can't hack `No Thru Street'. And I
suppose he doesn't understand what a `Lite Beer' is, can't figure out
what `Kwick Kleeners' does, and owns no <verb>-a-<noun> devices. :-)
Often a company will alter the spelling to create a trademark.
And written English does not unite the language as written Chinese does.
In the meantime, decode the following: nite, tho, enuf, grafix, alfa.
(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell (301) 975-5688
<rbj at nav.icst.nbs.gov> or <rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>
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