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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
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 09:58:33 1984
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> 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?

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	Alan S. Driscoll
	AT&T Bell Laboratories