atw: Re: Spelling Society centenary [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Words canot bgin to xpres th sikolojikal pane tht woud be inflictd on pep=
l hu lernt to spel corectly at scool. It woud be lik evry pec of litrachu=
r was riten by our kids on ther mobil fones. :-)=20

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Hmm,  I think John Gledhill ought to have called it something like "sieko=
lojikal pane".=20
Howard


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Y'all might be interested in this - came through in Michael Quinion's=20
WorldWideWords newsletter (link: http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/qrsw.ht=
m
)

Just in case anyone feels like picking up the spelling debate again...=20
(note that they don't seem to care about the psychological pain of poor=20
spelling on good-spelling reviewers/editors.)



3. Recently noted
Spelling reform
Generations of experts have put forward ways to improve the notoriously=20
chaotic and inconsistent spelling of English. This isn't the place to=20
rehash the arguments on both sides but to note that the Spelling Society =
-=20
founded as the Simplified Spelling Society in 1908, the British sister=20
society of a US organisation generously funded by Andrew Carnegie - is=20
celebrating its centenary in June by hosting a conference at Coventry=20
University called The Cost of English Spelling. A first-year student ther=
e=20
has worked out that some =A318m a year is wasted teaching traditional=20
spelling; the Society's secretary, John Gledhill, says that this is=20
compounded by what he calls the "psychological pain" caused to poor=20
spellers. The Society is not the force it once was, with membership havin=
g=20
fallen from a high of 35,000 in the early days to 500 now, because the=20
subject does not attract the interest it once did. The Society no longer =

advocates a specific system of respelling, though its members o
ften use simplifications such as Cut Spelling, which removes redundant=20
letters from words and makes other substitutions to improve correspondenc=
e=20
with the spoken word, leading to forms like frend, alfabet and scool. The=
=20
result is text like "Th perenial complaint of oldr jenrations that ther=20
desendnts fal short of ther eldrs has ofn been aplyd to languaj, and,=20
within languaj, to yung peples spelng in particulr."




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