Klarinet Archive - Posting 000250.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Coughy, or ti?
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 20:54:23 -0400

Then of course don't forget to include the appropriate spelling differences
for southern and northern versions of the languages and specialty dialects
like "Hahvahd".

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Coughy, or ti?

>Kaos in ce Klasrum
>
>By Dolton Edwards
>
>You must have often thought English spelling is harder than need be.
>Just look at words like cough, plough, rough, through, and thorough.
>YThe great writer Bernard Shaw wanted us to change our alphabet. Here's
>one way of doing it.
>
>In the first year, for example, we would suggest using "s" instead of
>soft "c". Sertainly all students in all sities of the land would reseive
>this news with joy.
>
>Then the hard "c" would be replased by "k,", sinse both letters are
>pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up the konfusion in the
>minds of the spellers, but typewriters kould all be built with one less
>letter.
>
>There would be great exsitement when it was at last announsed that the
>troublesome "ph" would henseforth be written "f". This would make words
>like "fotograf" twenty persent shorter in print.
>
>In the third year publik interest in a new alfabet kan be expekted to
>have reatshed a point where more komplikated tshanges are nesessary. We
>would urge removing double leters whitsh have always ben a nuisanse and
>made speling more difikult.
>
>We would al agre that the horible mes of silent "e's" in our language is
>disgrasful. Therfor, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ
>merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of edukation. Sins by this
>tim it would be four years sins anywun had used the leter "c," we would
>then urg substituting "c" for "th."
>
>Kontinuing cis proses year after year, we would eventuali hav a reali
>sensibl writen languag. After twenti years wi ventyur tu sa cer wud bi
>no mor uv ces teribl trublsum difikultis. Even Mr. Yaw wi beliv wud be
>hapi in ce noleg cat his drims finali kam tru.
>
>Reader's Digest Treasury for Young Readers, (c) 1961
>Adapted from Astounding Stories, (c) unknown
>----
>Mark Charette@-----.org/clarinet
>"Cards by Aimee", http://www.sneezy.org/Aimee
>"The phenomenon is too variable for proper study" often
>translates from "I don't know how to get musicians to do
>anything twice the same" - A. H. Benade
>
>
>
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