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