millcoo

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   by millcoo 10y ago

   > I always wonder whether people advocating phonetic spelling have ever encountered someone who speaks a different dialect. For just this reason, English spelling reform was probably doomed from the start. Any new standard seems just as
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   by millcoo 10y ago

   As regards Twain: the take you are thinking of was probably not written by him, but wrongly attributed to him after his death. He did, however, write an article[0] about spelling reform later in life, in which he sincerely advocated the use
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   by millcoo 10y ago

   Most residential streets in Pittsburgh, as in a great deal of the rest of the world, do not have lane markings, though many are two-way and have parked cars on one or both sides of the road. Pittsburgh provides an additional difficulty, tha