@Buttermilk,
Buttermilk wrote:As a alleged trial attorney why do you spell words like this?
I understand acronymns and using shortcuts but I've noticed that you
tend to do this a lot. I'm not saying you should use "intellectual jargon"
but I noticed when you spell words like "should" as shud, or in this
recent post "you" as "u."
Long b4 u arrived in this forum (
WELCOME BACK)
I explained my sense of guilt concerning the fact that thru most
of my life, and obviously during my career in the legal profession,
I was complicit in preserving an atavistic throw-back which does
violence to sound reasoning and efficiency, to wit: the Germanic
remnants of non-fonetic spelling. In the days of Chaucer, those words
may well have been pronounced as thay were spelled, but not now.
I am offering a modest effort to show better ways to spell (
fonetically)
than have been the current practice. I try to lead by example.
This is ez on the Internet. Of course, I must choose my audiences;
i.e., if I were to resume my practice of law, I 'd have to resume
paradigmatic spelling for so long as I do so, but not beyond.
I am in a state of retirement. My life in the legal profession
was another world. (I define a "world" as a sphere of consciousness.)
Other languages r more fully fonetic, e.g. Spanish.
We shud not put our children in an inferior position.
There is
NO logical reason for an L to be in wud, cud nor shud.
It makes no sense to add the letters "ugh" to the word
THO.
To my mind, it seems dull of wit to spell the word enuf
as enough, just because in earlier centuries, it was pronounced that way.
Differences of opinion have arisen in A2K, qua how best to spell fonetically.
I can understand differences of opinion; no surprize.
FOR SURE, I will
not be the final authority on accurate fonetic spelling.
Some
fonetic lexicografer will eventually write a new dictionary.
In the meantime, I do my best. I 'm not a fanatic about it,
and I let a lot of non-fonetic spelling go by; I dont wanna freak
everyone out by over-doing it too much.
Did u see my answer to your PM ?
David