DJA wrote:
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.
Evolution?! You're talking to the wrong person for /that/ nonsense.
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.
Okay, you never said the cars were wrecked. But you did say the cars
were not moving and littering the freeway. Other than gridlock or a
rare stall, the only non-moving cars littering the freeway are wrecks.
(Or perhaps you have experienced different freeways than I have.)
Unfortunate that you want to give up on the analogy. It seemed to be
working better for me than for you. ;-)
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!
Not surprising.
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.
Hooray. :-)
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Ralph
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One day I stumbled across a case of Scotch.
As I recall, I stumbled several days thereafter.
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