Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.jokes Subject: Re: Spelling Reform Message-ID: <175@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 10:18:37 EDT Article-I.D.: cybvax0.175 Posted: Tue Oct 9 10:18:37 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 04:16:53 EDT References: <179@scc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 > [Don Steiny] > In a letter to 'The Economist' in Readers Digest (ages ago), > M.J.Shields, of Jarrow, England, points out that George Bernard > Shaw, among others, urged spelling reform, suggesting that one > letter be altered or deleted each year, thus giving the populace > time to absorb the change... There was a classic short story (I believe it was in an Astounding anthology) entitled "Meihem in Ce Klasrum" along the same lines, but longer and thus easier to follow. I've long wanted to have a xerox of it.... -- Mike Huybensz ...mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh