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To: secret garden
"Some reformers thought spelling should reflect the etymological background of words"

It can only be in a language that acquires words from other languages that this concept would even arise.

Yet how else can a language grow to encompass more ideas and more ways of expressing them except through such acquisitiveness?

Worthy of a different discussion perhaps, but through invention and combination of existing words, as answer to my own question. Cacography would also only be considered a problem among those for whom literacy is widespread, rather than confined to a select few.

Most of us make the excuse for the poor quality of our writing by saying that we are in a hurry. If the most permanent part of your passage through the day is not worthy of careful scrutiny and attention to detail, what is?

19 posted on 02/09/2012 5:39:12 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If "everybody's different" then two of them have to be the same. It's the only way to be different.)
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To: NicknamedBob

A for you.


42 posted on 02/09/2012 10:38:41 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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