Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!xadmx!rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov From: rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: sexist language Message-ID: <17669@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 30 Nov 88 17:29:59 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 26 I wrote: ? >In return we give up fonetik pronunciation, but I would argue for doing ? >violence in that arena to rid the language some of the more rediculous ? >spellings. ? Sorry, e hoa, can't do her. Written English is very nearly in the place ? of written Chinese: a notation shared by people whose _spoken_ languages ? are not mutually comprehensible. YOUR phonetic spelling is MY unsolvable ? puzzle. (For an English-speaker, trying to learn the IPA from an ? American textbook is harder than you might think.) This is one reason why ? correct spelling is good manners: spell-as-you-speak-and-mumble doesn't ? work too well when the person at the other end doesn't know your dialect. Uh, oh, don't left this guy drive. He can't hack `No Thru Street'. And I suppose he doesn't understand what a `Lite Beer' is, can't figure out what `Kwick Kleeners' does, and owns no-a- devices. :-) Often a company will alter the spelling to create a trademark. And written English does not unite the language as written Chinese does. In the meantime, decode the following: nite, tho, enuf, grafix, alfa. (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell (301) 975-5688 or Crackers and Worms -- Breakfast of Champions!