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On 10/12/12 10:22, tom wrote: > On 10/12/12 09:22, Philip Hudson wrote: >> On 10 Dec, 2012, at 8:55 am, tom wrote: >> >>> Using mercan spelling makes as much sense as using 3 for pi. It >>> might be 'easier' but achieves nothing of use to anyone. >> >> Go on, just take a deep breath and let go of those silly UK >> spellings. You can do it. Accept that American spellings are >> phonetically truer, truer to Latin and Greek originals, shorter, more >> consistent, easier to learn and remember, and altogether utterly and >> completely superior. You're a logical, reasoning, rational sort of >> chap, a global cybernaut, way beyond petty prejudice and chauvinism. >> >>> In twenty years time do we change all spelling again because we are >>> ruled from China and we have to adapt our spelling to their accent? >> >> >> Er... we already have. Peking -> Beijing, Tse-tung -> Zedong, etc. >> >> -- >> Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz >> @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 >> >> > Changing the spelling is a bit like putting a motor on an exercise > bike only your brain rots not your muscles. Are you going to go and > fix all the English documentation that will become incoherent to the > now brane ded hoo r 2 laz r stooped 2 adap? Its nothing to do with > chauvinism - ooh look a french name not americanised that we both > understand - we could change it to showvanisum but it would loose all > historical significance. Shrinking a language for the lazy or pig > headed shrinks all the prior work and removes vast amounts of > information. The difference between colour and color is not one letter > - it is between two completely different cultures. > I write this as someone whose first language is American. > Tom te tom te tom > > > Hear, hear (so much better than Yeah!) Keith -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All e-mails including their file attachments are scanned for viruses and spam using Symantec's and ClamAV's scan engines. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq