Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!allegra!alan From: alan@allegra.UUCP (Alan S. Driscoll) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Phonetic spelling isn't practical Message-ID: <2888@allegra.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 09:58:33 EST Article-I.D.: allegra.2888 Posted: Thu Nov 8 09:58:33 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 08:37:50 EST References: decwrl.4147 <389@houxb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 16 > It is possible to legislate phonetic spelling. In the Ntherlends, > there have been a series of spelling reform laws... > Since there is no "legal" spelling in the US, one is presumably > free to spell in any way one wishes. "This court finds the defendant guilty of five counts of misspelling, four counts of improper punctuation, and one count of conspiracy to strand a preposition..." Maybe this should be in net.politics? -- Alan S. Driscoll AT&T Bell Laboratories