OT: en orthography (was: en-GB-oxford)
Mark Crispin
mrc at CAC.Washington.EDU
Mon Jun 16 12:15:10 CEST 2003
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
> Webster's changes were largely superficial, and didn't address most
> of the real issues regarding English orthography.
>
> Read Axel Wijk.
This is supposed to be a new revelation? Mark Twain and other authors
wrote the subject over 100 years ago!
It isn't that the exercise of a thorough reform of English orthography
hasn't been done. It has. Nobody can read the result.
-- Mark --
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