From xod@sixgirls.org Sat Sep 02 11:55:15 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12469 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2000 18:55:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 2 Sep 2000 18:55:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (207.12.88.107) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 Sep 2000 18:55:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.0+3.3W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e82ItDl06878 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:55:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:55:13 -0400 (EDT) To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: English, the Broken Language In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, John Cowan wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > > [Will Barton now turn up to tell us again that 90% of all English > > words can be handled by a small set of spelling rules?] > > No, but I will: http://www.zompist.com/spell.html . He's got 56 rules, no handful. And some are quite bizarre; silent letters, non-local effects, and letters that are to be read in reverse order. ----- We have an unlimited faith in the ability of technology to alter nature. We need the same faith in the ability of culture to alter human nature.