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| anne-girl |
dude. w is the only letter of the alphabet that has three syllables. THREE syllables, dammit! I mean, saying www.blah is absolute torture... acronymizing things with double-us in 'em is terrible, makes it faster to just say the bloody thing it stands for (world-wide-web... c'mon) 'Sides, double-u isn't even composed of two "u"s... it's double-vay, like they say it (properly) in french! Therefore, I officially propose that the letter w be deprived of its three-syllable status and be re-pronounced "wuh". this rant was brought to you by the letter "wuh" |
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| andru235 |
the secessionist movement for an independent 'zh' is surely no secret to you, anne-girl. 'zh' has a viSIon for a colliSIon that enables us to spell with phoenetic preciSIon, as a raJA or any caJUn chef might tell you, hoping to dispel any alluSIons to these alphabetic illuSIons "w-w-what is he talking about?" ZSa ZSa asked the perSIan |
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| andru235 | i realize that wasn't 'w' related; please excuse the DOUBLE post from andr-U-235 | 050701 |
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| anne-girl |
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling by Mark Twain _________________________________________ For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. |
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| anne-girl | half the fun's in the illogic of it all, methinks | 050702 |
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| andru235 |
xat maid me smial repeatdli xanks, an-girl, vor posting xis vine spesimin ov efektiv fonetik reformayun |
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