From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!rama
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: God save the English Language
Article-I.D.: uwvax.517
Posted: Fri Jul 30 11:26:10 1982
Received: Sat Jul 31 07:18:26 1982
References: watmath.3128


It is interesting to note that so many people are ever so anxious
to destroy the beauty of the English language.  As it is,
English as spoken by the Americans is distorted to a painful degree.
(No offence meant - I am just pointing out a well known fact!!)
I am at a loss to understand why one would want to distort it further
with all this talk of phonetic/rational spelling.
I hope English survives this new attack.

Prof. Higgins' remark about the use of English language from
the movie "My Fair Lady" comes to my mind:
	'Well in America they haven't used it for years'!!

				Kishore Ramachandran
				rama@uwisc