Re: [FRIAM] QRE: Spelling of Spanish Surnames

2014-02-26 Thread Nick Thompson
/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Tom Carter Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 12:25 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] QRE: Spelling of Spanish Surnames Credited

Re: [FRIAM] QRE: Spelling of Spanish Surnames

2014-02-24 Thread Tom Carter
Credited on the InterWeb to Mark Twain: A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling: For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to be replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which c would be retained would be

Re: [FRIAM] QRE: Spelling of Spanish Surnames

2014-02-24 Thread Arlo Barnes
While I certainly would not try making the US (or any Anglophone country) convert, I kinda like how post-year-20 English looks. A friend of mine made a conlang called v0tgil http://reddit.com/r/v0tgil#LookInTheSidebar, which uses some of the same alterations. -Arlo James Barnes

Re: [FRIAM] QRE: Spelling of Spanish Surnames

2014-02-24 Thread lrudolph
Nick: Nyaaah! Nyaaah! As we used to say when we were six. In 1968, my then-girlfriend (long since become a Mad Bomber at Los Alamos--her graduate degree was in astrophysics) provided what is has just now become fresh evidence of something-or-other relevant to this thread: having learned