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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Archaic English [was: Re: Anounsing a nu Ingglish spelling
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 17:45:37 GMT
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In article <32D1263B.45C8@online.no>, Anders Blehr  <ablehr@online.no> wrote:
>Daniel von Brighoff wrote:
>
>> In article <32D026CB.170@online.no>, Anders Blehr  <ablehr@online.no> wrote:
>> 
>> >It's more that they're choosing to keep the spelling as is instead of
>> >changing it.  Yes, this is a way of choosing to let "" represent
>> >/[au]/, but the question they're asking themselves is not "What letter
>> >should we use to represent /[au]/?" (several possible answers), but
>> >rather "Should we change the spelling or not?" (yes/no).  If they
>> >suddenly answered "Yes" to this question, then, and only then, would
>> >they have to start asking themselves the other.
>> 
>> So, even though all Icelanders learn Danish and English, they never asks
>> themselves (even subconsciously), "How would I write the Danish bzw.
>> English sound spelt X using the alphabet I grew up with?"
>
>"Beziehungsweise"!?

If I knew an English equivalent, I'd use it.

> Of course they do - what's your point?

So, on some level, they are asking themselves the question "What letter
should represent [au]?" and answering "/a".  Not a very important point,
to be sure, and completely tangential to all of my previous points, but
it's only bandwidth, eh?

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