On Sep 8, 2005, at 11:40, Joy Beeson wrote:
At 02:22 PM 9/6/05 -0700, Weronika Patena wrote:
. . . I think for a long time nobody even thought of coming up
with standardized spelling.
In English, there is a date on the idea:
-- James Boswell (Discussing Samuel Johnson's invention of the
dictionary)
Dr Sam in England, Voltaire and Diderot in France. 18th century
(Enlightment/Oswiecenie) in both cases. So, Weronika's claim ("for a
long time nobody even thought of [...]" ) stands - it *was* a long way
to Tipperarry :)
Mid-to-late 18th c was full of novel ideas (and not all of them as
bloody as the French Revoluton <g>), including Jacquard's loom which,
so far as I know, was the very first precursor of the older versions of
the 'puter, with its punch cards...
General, linguistic, not a propos of anything musing... I wonder if the
conservatives' dislike of "evolution" has anything to do with the fact
that "evolution" and "revolution" share the root (to everything - turn,
turn,turn; there is a season - turn, turn, turn) and too much sudden
"turning" makes one a tad queasy? Of course, the currently popular - at
least in US - hatred of " all things liberal", while extolling
"freedom" (and thinking that the two are incompatible) is simply due to
lack of classical education <g>
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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