Not on your linguistic Nellie

[Colin McHenry <s172579@student.uq.edu.au>]

At 19:08 11/01/96 -0500, you wrote:

>'K' sound followed by every later 'H', 'I', and 'E'!  Don't get me started on
>my "The english language needs to be re-organized so that words are spelled
>the way they are said and don't have stupid letters like c, q, and x; but
>some extras like ch, sh, zh, dh, th, and ng."  But I digress......
>
>Peter Buchholz
>Stang1996@aol.com
>


Fine, just don't call it English - be honest and call it American (for
dummies?).  You lot have already had a good go at 'simplifying' the language
- witness the perrenial writing of palaeontology as paleontology, and the
absurd 'downsizing' of perfectly simple words like colour, harbour, etc. to
(I'll just pause to let the fit on vomiting pass) COLOR (yuk!).  Some of us
like a language with 'karaktur'. If you want a language full of double
consonants then learn Gaelic.

Ta ta,

Colin "keep the colonials out of all the important descisions" McHenry