Anglonics

[KENNETH HOUGHTON]

     It's difficult not to notice, though, that Henry's(?) posting made the 
     ultimate English look rather much more like German with extra spaces 
     in the words...


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Subject: Anglonics
Author:  LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu at dbnaccip
Date:    5/4/97 11:18 AM


     
About the report on English becoming the "official" language of the New 
Europe and the suggestions about spellings to standardize phonetics: 
Those at least I assume were meant in jest, but is the rest         
of the report?
     
If the report is true, then GB Shaw is rejoicing in heaven.  He wanted a 
simplified standard spelling and proposed one, noting the famous
example that using phonetic inscriptions from different contexts, it 
is possible in English that "ghoti" spells "fish".
     
And there was the pragmatic Noah Webster, who tried to clean up English 
by elminating the "u" from such words as "colour" and "humour" and 
introduced the "j" to stand for "g" in such transformations as 
"gaol"="jail".
     
Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)