Hi Steve The History of Spanish Speliing gives us some hope, I guess. I suspect that at the rate that people are accepting changes, it may be a while before English spelling can justifiably be called fully simplified. Of the 13 proposed changes made back in 1916, I would say only about 6 or 1/2 of them have been accepted. They are all quite logical and obvious too. That is Glacial change at best. I still have to vote for Shavian.
Regards, Paul V. P.S. I will implement the 13 suggestons in my own spelling. Thanks for the info. __________________attached___________________________________ --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Origin of the Spelling Reform Movement > How far back does the interest in spelling reform go? > www.foolswisdom.com/~sbett/rules_for_simpler_spelling.htm > > Efforts to simplify and standardize European orthographies began shortly > after Gutenberg found an efficient way to print books in 1450. Greek and Latin > had been standardized but few of the regional languages had. > Around 1490, Nabrija, a Spanish University professor, came up with a way to > represent the dialect of the Spanish court [similar to the dialect spoken > around Toledo]. This dialect and associated writing system was called Castilian. > Unlike his counterparts in England, Nabrija selected a dialect and invented > the simplest way he could think of to represent it. This involved reducing the > number of vowels from ten to five. Nabrija published not an essay but both a > Dictionary and Grammar for Castilian. > Nabrija's orthography was not standardized or government sanctioned for > another 200 years but because it was generally available, writers and printers who > wanted to write in the vernacular and reach an audience in Spain used it. An > English writer had no such resource. Had something similar been available in > England, much of the chaos we see today would have been avoided. > The National Education Association approved the movement in 1898 and adopted > 12 simpler spellings for immediate sue: tho, altho, thru, thruout, thoro, > thorofare, catalog, decalog, demagog, pedagog, program, prolog. In 1916, it voted > to use t in the past tenses of verbs ending in -ed and pronounced t, e.g. > dropt. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/mx3olB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shavian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
