Re: DINOSAUR digest 807

[Stang1996@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-11 23:03:17 EST, you write:

>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.

But you see, British and American pronounciation of words like 'color' for
instance is just about the same k'oe'l'er' (the 'oe' is the ligature that
makes the shwaw sound and the 'er' is a true-vowel that is really represented
by an upside-down shwaw with a little tail).  My point is that English
(should be I'ng'gli'sh') spelling is STUPID and people need ten years to
decipher the inane code that you call a logical (should be lajik'ol')
spelling system.

Peter Buchholz
Stang1996@aol.com