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From: Darrin Edwards <edwards@noise.bsd.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Anounsing a nu Ingglish spelling
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:37:50 GMT
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Tom Wier <Tomaso.Houston@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> writes:

> 
> Mark Baker wrote:
> 
> > 3. People are still going to need the old system in order to be able
> > to read old books. They would need to know two spelling systems and
> > remember how to spell words in both systems - at least well enough
> > to recognise the words - rather than just one.
> 
> Not if they began to phase the old one out.In a period of fifty  years 
> afterwards SO much would have been rewritten using the new script that
> it would not be necessary to use the old one at all except for maybe 
> being to understand old (and by then possibly outdated) books. One would

[snip] 
> Pax tecum,
> 
> Tom
> 

Phasing out the old systems, rewriting the old books, consigning the
old and outdated to oblivion, I like it already.  Perhaps before tackling
larger problems like spelling one should resolve the more straightforward
debates; for example, Bradbury's famous novella should be retitled
_Celsius 233_.  Make sure you find and "recycle" _all_ the original
copies, mind.

xirs,
Darrin
