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What is the ideal cycling jacket (for UK commuting)
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:33:29 +0100, Tony Raven
wrote: wrote on 28/10/2006 02:00 +0100: Dear Tony, That's news that I could have done without, but it's the way of the world. I try to be tolerant of spelling diversity after my mis-spent youth grading freshman essays, but I still dread the day when "nickle" becomes officially recognized as a legitimate variant of "nickel"--I know that the word sounds the same either way, but somehow the dyslexic spelling seems to debase the five-cent piece. That is the way of language unless you would prefer to be reciting the Lord's Prayer as: Fęder ure žu že eart on heofonum, Si žin nama gehalgod. To becume žin rice, gewurže šin willa, on eoršan swa swa on heofonum. urne gedęghwamlican hlaf syle us todęg, and forgyf us ure gyltas, swa swa we forgyfaš urum gyltendum. and ne gelęd žu us on costnunge, ac alys us of yfele. sožlice. which is how it would have been said and written in England a thousand years ago. UK spelling only started to standardise with Samuel Johnson's dictionary in 1755 and in the US with Noah Webster in 1828. Indeed many of the differences between UK and US English spelling are because of the different approaches to spelling that these two individuals took in their dictionaries of conservative etymological and and simplified phonetic respectively and the differences in meaning from the divergence of the languages from the c17th. Even as recently as 1996, the German speaking nations completely overhauled their spelling system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...reform_of_1996 See what an education you get from visiting urc Carl ;-) Dear Tony, Well, it's roughly what Professors Ross and Tripp taught me in Old English and linguistics classes circa 1980. Tripp also commented that there was a widespread tendency among young Germans to ignore the more complicated rules of pronouns and articles. But a refresher is always interesting. Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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What is the ideal cycling jacket (for UK commuting)
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:33:29 +0100, Tony Raven
wrote: [---] Even as recently as 1996, the German speaking nations completely overhauled their spelling system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...reform_of_1996 Which was a total mess, as you can see from reading that article, which presents the situation as it was by mid 2005, and points out the large amount of dissent from both the public, respected academics and writers, as well as the press. In later developments, most of the really silly changes proposed have been dumped, and a more sensible set of rules is supposed to be ready by 2007. |
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What is the ideal cycling jacket (for UK commuting)
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:00:07 +0200, Andrew Price
wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:33:29 +0100, Tony Raven wrote: [---] Even as recently as 1996, the German speaking nations completely overhauled their spelling system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...reform_of_1996 Which was a total mess, as you can see from reading that article, which presents the situation as it was by mid 2005, and points out the large amount of dissent from both the public, respected academics and writers, as well as the press. In later developments, most of the really silly changes proposed have been dumped, and a more sensible set of rules is supposed to be ready by 2007. Dear Andrew, ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated with more heat than light by the outmates of every asylum for the insane. They have had to concede a few things since the time of Chaucer, but are none the less hot in defence of those to be conceded hereafter. A spelling reformer indicted For fudge was before the court cicted. The judge said: "Enough His candle we'll snough, And his sepulchre shall not be whicted." --Bierce I never know which side I'm on, but I suspect that the mob cannot-- Er, the people cannot be ordered. They must be led. Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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