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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Anounsing a nu Ingglish spelling
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In article <32CD89C9.19DE@online.no>, Anders Blehr  <ablehr@online.no> wrote:
>Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~} wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "Anders" == Anders Blehr <ablehr@online.no> writes:
>> 
>>     Anders> Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~} wrote:
>>     Anders> I suggest we go for the Newfoundland brand of English,
>>     Anders> since it presumably is closer to Old English than any
>>     Anders> other dialect.
>> 
>> Well... Old English  is highly inflected, and  would  be too difficult
>> for current  English speakers.   Moreover,  the English  spoken in the
>> 17th century is not Old.  It should be no older than Middle English.

It should be no older than *modern* English, unless there's some lost
tribe of Cumbrians I don't know about.

>Thanks for taking me seriously on this, but I was merely joking... ;-)

But I'd love to see a proposal for orthographic reform which took Newfie
English as its basis!

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