On 2017-03-27 03:43, Marc Mutz wrote: > And "debt" should be spelled "det". It should. It isn't. You can start > writing > det everywhere now, and maybe in a generation you will have collected enough > mindshare that the Oxford Dictionary contains it as an alternative spelling. > Your grandchildren will thank you for a simplified language, but your > children > will fight with the fact that debt is now called det.
Yeah, that just looks wrong. If we were to ever do such things, I would much rather switch wholesale to a completely phonetic spelling of everything :-). Just for fun... Iä, thät güst lûks wråŋ. Yf wi wÿr tu ëvÿr du süch thyŋz, ai wûd müch räthÿr swytch holsel tu ü kümplitli fünëtyk spëlyŋ üf ëvrithyŋ. Ai häpyn tu lüik thys systûm wych ai ëm dëmünstretyŋ hir ;-). (Yeah... I've given this "some" thought before now :-)... writing takes practice, but *reading* is surprisingly easy... at least if you can pronounce latin-derived langauges. There are 12 distinct vowel characters and 22 distinct consonant characters, but - with one exception - each has a single, distinct pronunciation. The exception is 'h', which may appear by itself, or as the second character of 5 two-character consonants.) > Been there, done that. Delphin is now spelled Delfin in German. For - what - > 20 years now? It still looks wrong. Oh, and the public outcry back then. And > the economic damage caused by having to re-proofread, re-edit and re-print a > ton of Flipper books... ...and, correct me if I'm wrong, but German is generally spelled how it is pronounced, yes? -- Matthew _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
