@Blickers,
Blickers wrote:
David made it clear that he supports phonetic spelling and follows through on that with his posts on A2K.
I like it when somebody makes the extra effort to follow through on their principles, so I hope David continues to use phonetic spelling in his posts. Since most of his posts are quite brief, his use of different font sizes and colors in his posts does not, I feel, render them unclear.
The problem with phonetic spelling is that the rest of the world doesn't write that way. So far, at least. And it makes for difficult reading for those of us who don't, so it's annoying. I never read his stuff because I can't be bothered to translate it into English spelling. I figure if he wants to communicate with a largely non-phonetic world, he would write so we could easily understand him.
Question: How are you going to spell "their, there, and they're" - all three the same way?