Ralph Shumaker wrote:
DJA wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
DJA wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
the spoken language (or a given dialect).
"Practical changes in spelling will evolve naturally ..."? Generally
speaking, not without considerable numbers of the masses pushing for it.
Pushing can occur at a slow easy pace. Think Evolution.
Well, maybe a bad analogy on my part. But I didn't say "Things", I
specifically said "Cars". One has a reasonable expectation that, upon
seeing something on the road that looks like a car, it should /act/
like a car and not like an incredibly decorated refrigerator carton
(Scion B's and Pontiac Aztecs notwithstanding).
So, cars that are wrecked and not moving are fair game I take it?
Okay, you're really reading too hard into this. I never said the cars
were wrecked... So let's just forget the "They look like like cars on
the freeway, but they're really not" analogy.
I agree that the analogy wasn't that good. I think it's more like in
the 70s when the American automobile was still the standard. Then all
of a sudden there started appearing compact cars on the road. They were
not sitting in the middle of the road. In fact they were smaller,
accelerated quicker, and maneuvered quicker. They were more responsive
in a smaller package. They were considered by many to be an eyesore and
quite inferior, not having anywhere near the power. They were
considered a fad and that it wouldn't last.
Not where I was going at all, but...okay?
I think this is a more accurate analogy except that the most vocal of
the consumers are more resistant to the sleeker more responsive models
that are considered eyesores. And the most vocal group succeed in large
part in shaming the rest in avoiding changing over.
I think I wish I had never used a car analogy at all!
If the quote that I'm quoting had the question mark, I think the quote
should keep it. If I'm asking a question, I'll put a second question
mark (otherwise a period or exclamation point) outside the quote because
that one belongs to *my* sentence. (It's consistent nesting.) It is my
choice and I'm unwilling to budge unless I see good cause. I don't care
whether or not anyone considers it an eyesore. I just won't go pushing
anyone else to adopt it. Take it or leave it.
What I said.
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