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Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:23 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:33 AM
JO753
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Quote:Originally posted by MAL4PREZ: Language is not about efficiency, because humans are not machines. Language is about communicating all the varied traits and feelings and thoughts and cultural experiences of human beings.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:41 AM
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:46 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: That quote that you didn't recognize? It was from your post. Saturday, December 1, 2012 6:09 PM
Quote: "... I jenerally spell wut I think uv az the proper pronunciation for each word az the best speaker woud say it individuly ..." WHOSE best speaker? You still haven't answered that.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 4:01 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: "Nooalf iz able to ... convey thingz that simply cannot be conveyed with traditional spelling ..." I'm sure you have data to back that up. BTW, you owe some data for other claims you made. You seem to be really long on opinion, and short on facts. Plus you need to answer the question WHOSE pronunciation.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 5:05 AM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Quote:Originally posted by JO753: Not that simple. Therez a great book on the history uv English you shoud read. http://www.amazon.com/Story-English-Third-Revised/dp/0142002313/ref=sr _1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1390255293&sr=1-1&keywords=the+story+of+english
Quote:I read sumthing about a court advizor segjesting to the emporor that a fonetic system woud boost literacy in China - this wuz in sum middle age dynasty. The advizor wuz executed. The emporor realized that literacy iz power and that hiz power relied on the weakness uv the general population.
Quote: But you are making the same lojik error 1KIKI made above. The number symbolz can reprezent both the spoken word and the consept. Spelling = consept = pronunciation. Wut you are segjesting iz that if spelling = pronunciation, it cant = consept.
Quote: You have an inkling uv how the rest uv the world feelz about English.
Quote:I don't think you hav anything to worry about. The BBC iz available everywhere and your musicianz, moviez and TV showz are doing a brisk international bizness.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:40 AM
Quote:from the Rosetta Project: As a linguistic collection, The Rosetta Project also serves to draw attention to the drastic and accelerated loss of the world’s languages. Just as globalization threatens human cultural diversity, the languages of small, unique, localized human societies are at serious risk. In fact, linguists predict that we may lose as much as 90% of the world’s linguistic diversity within the next century.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:29 PM
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:16 PM
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:50 AM
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:01 AM
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:13 AM
Quote:Originally posted by JO753: MAGON, you dont need to worry about that for at least 50 yirz. And considering that idealistic foolz like me hav been trying and failing to introduce a real spelling system for English for 800 yirz, you can relax and forget about it.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:41 AM
Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:43 AM
DAVEJE49
Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:44 AM
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M52NICKERSON
DALEK!
Sunday, August 17, 2014 1:33 PM
THGRRI
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