Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!mauney From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Spelling Reform Message-ID: <2701@ncsu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 09:45:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ncsu.2701 Posted: Tue Oct 16 09:45:04 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Oct-84 08:30:04 EDT References: <179@scc.UUCP> <2696@ncsu.UUCP> <4483@fortune.UUCP> Organization: N.C. State University, Raleigh Lines: 22 > Some obvious targets of spelling reform are superfluous letters > as in knight, and glaringly inconsistent representations of sound > as in the -gh of through, tough and though. > > Does anyone else have ideas for reasonable and practocal spelling reform? > If English orthography is to be reformed, then the way to do it is through a few changes to the most problematic cases. The various uses of -gh is probably the single biggest offender. Other candidates that spring to mind are the choices between ance/ence, ant/ent, able/ible, and ei/ie. The newspapers have already given us employe and cigaret; they could give us nite, flexable, and beleve if thay wonted tu. The solution is not a logical, phonetical (unattainable, inhuman) system, but merely one which doesn't have quite so many exceptions. Mind you, I think the words are prettier left the way they are. -- *** REPLACE THIS MESSAGE WITH YOUR LINE *** Jon Mauney mcnc!ncsu!mauney C.S. Dept, North Carolina State University