atw: Re: Irregular English spelling should be scrapped...
- From: Ana Young <ana_young2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:53:34 -0700 (PDT)
I am origianlly Portuguese. To say that you can write a Latin-based language
(any Latin-based language) the moment you know the letters is ridiculous, to
say the least.
--- On Tue, 9/9/08, Judith Bluhm-Brown <Judith.Bluhm-Brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Judith Bluhm-Brown <Judith.Bluhm-Brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: atw: Re: Irregular English spelling should be scrapped...
> To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 12:53 AM
> Generator Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium) Those were my
> thought as well, Ken. I' m from Virginia originally, so
> phonetically pronounced, ' dog' would be '
> dawg' (dependin on wha coun' y ya' ll ur frum).
>
> However, I suspect English will evolve naturally to
> something on those lines of text and chat room shortened
> forms.
>
> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken
> Randall Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2008 3:07 PM To:
> austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: Irregular
> English spelling should be scrapped...
>
> Yes, to some degree, butdifferent people perceive the
> sounds
> of different words differently, and hence even with
> phonetic
> spelling there would be variations and absurdities in
> spelling.
>
> The situation mentioned below used to apply - everyone
> chose
> their own spelling- and there were problems with
> comprehensibility.
> --- On Tue, 9/9/08, Stephen Nason
> <snason@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Stephen Nason <snason@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject:
> atw: Irregular English spelling should be scrapped... To:
> austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Received: Tuesday, 9 September,
> 2008, 4:44 PM
> Thort this mite interest...
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> 'Telegraph' newspaper(London, 9 Sep 2008)
> By Jon Swaine
> [Headline:] Irregular English spelling should be scrapped,
> says leading academic
>
> Irregular English spellings hold back schoolchildren and
> should be abandoned, a leading academic has said.
>
> Spelling should be "freed up" and the apostrophe
> scrapped, according to John Wells, Emeritus Professor of
> Phonetics at University College London.
>
> He proposes turning "give" into "giv",
> "river" into "rivver" and embracing
> Americanisms such as "organize" with a
> "z".
>
> In a speech to the centenary dinner of the Spelling
> Society, of which he is president, Prof Wells will blame the
> country's literacy problems on the "burden"
> the English spelling system places on children.
>
> "It seems to be a great pity that English-speaking
> countries are holding back children in this way," Prof
> Wells will say.
>
> "In Finnish, once you have learned the letters, you
> know how to spell, so it would be ludicrous to hold spelling
> tests. In countries like Italy and Spain it's similar.
>
> "But with English it's not phonetic, and there are
> just so many irregularities.".
>
> In a statement bound to bring him into direct confrontation
> with traditionalists, Prof Wells will say that abbreviations
> commonly used in text messaging should be used more widely.
> "Text messaging, email and internet chat rooms are
> showing us the way forward for English."
>
> "Let's allow people greater freedom to spell
> logically. It's time to remove the fetish that says that
> correct spelling is a principal (principle?) mark of being
> educated," Prof Wells will say.
> Prof Wells will also claim the apostrophe causes
> unnecessary linguistic barriers.
>
> "Instead of an apostrophe," he will say, "we
> could just leave it out (it's could become its) or leave
> a space (so we'll would become we ll). Have we really
> nothing better to do with our lives than fret about the
> apostrophe?"
>
> [ends]
>
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