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From: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Spelling Reform
Message-ID: <34@tove.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 19:44:52 EST
Article-I.D.: tove.34
Posted: Sat Nov  3 19:44:52 1984
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Reply-To: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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Summary: 

rite.  Once, a couple adult students who were
previously non-literate came to a class and learned some of the
basics of reading and writing.  They couldn't stay more than a few
days or so, but did take a couple of the reading books with them
when they left.  Within a month or so, they returned knowing how
to read!

I'm not sure about advocating reforming English spelling completely,
though some reform would probably be useful.  One problem I can
foresee is that we could lose our literature written in pre-reform
days.  After a new generation had learned to read in new-spell,
they would find it very difficult to read literature in the old
spelling -- that would create a real big generation gap!  Anyone
for getting all books written in English computer scanned and
reproduced in new-spell?
-- 
				-Liz Allen

Univ of Maryland, College Park MD	
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