From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:arnold
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Rational Pronunciation (cont.)
Article-I.D.: ucbarpa.1811
Posted: Thu Jul 29 18:13:54 1982
Received: Sat Jul 31 07:37:53 1982
Reply-To: d

This should be read after my other message, but since it's shorter
it may arrive first.  Sorry.

I forgot to add my footnote labeled "[1]", which followed a reference
to poetry as a technology.  This is a rather loose definition of
technology, but a nice one.  There is no reason to seperate art
from technology (I am also known to refer to technologies as "arts"),
since they are both human artifacts and they both serve human needs.
But this is a rather long discussion of its own, and unless this
footnote generates enough interest, I will shut up.  But read "Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" if you're interested in this
subject.

		Ken

P.S.  I do NOT favor either rational spelling or rational pronunciation
personally.  I just think that if you have to choose, at the moment
there is less capitial investment and inertia in pronunciation than
in spelling.