Re: Push for Simpler Spelling: English as a Global Language

[Peter Lewicke <plewicke -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

That's a good point about changes originating in
society, rather than being imposed. With English as an
international language with variations in
pronounciation everywhere, it would be impossible to
change spelling to more closely resemble all of the
local variations. Which pronounciation would be the
standard? It might be better to keep standard spelling
that has some relationship to what the language was at
some point.



--- Sankara R <ss_rajanala -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> 
> > What the successful attempts have in common is
> > that they preserve the 
> > information contained in the original
> > orthography. Changes are small and 
> > subtle and do not discard etymological clues.
> > What the crackpot schemes 
> > have in common is precisely that they discard
> > all etymological coding in 
> > favor of phonological coding.
> 
> Another consideration (other than preserving
> etymological clues) is ensuring that changes
> effected in the American spelling should not be
> radically different. Color (and such words) are a
> shade different from color and so on, and so it
> is easy to cope with the change - for everyone
> involved.
> 
> English is on the way to becoming a global
> language - some say it is already the GL - and
> any 'man-made' changes should take into account
> the implications to its global presence.
> 
> It is a little stressful to mentally convert a
> mile into 1.6 km when one travels across the
> pond, but it will be very painful indeed if a
> similar exercise is required when one puts down J
> K Rowling and picks up "Da Vinchi Koed".
> 
> I have a suspicion that many of the subtle
> changes Noah Webster codified were already in
> use: rather than condemn thousands who uniformly
> use a different/simpler spelling.
> 
> That's another thing most successful language
> reforms have in common: they originate in the
> society and are valorized; and not in someone's
> wild imagination.
> 
> Thanks and regards, 
> Sankara S Rajanala 
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