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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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In article <32D18429.2C4F@online.no>, Anders Blehr  <ablehr@online.no> wrote:
>Daniel von Brighoff wrote:
>
>> So, on some level, they are asking themselves the question "What letter
>> should represent [au]?" and answering "/a".  [...]
>
>From my own experience (when starting to learn English about twenty
>years ago), the question one first asks, is "Why don't these foreigners
>learn to spell properly?".  Then, after a while, you learn that, in
>writing, sounds are represented differently in different languages.

And then, after that, one asks, "Why don't I teach these foreigners how to
spell properly?"  At least, if one is Ruud Harmsen...
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