Re:Ghoti
by anamexis on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:34PM
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It's not supposed to be believable - quite the opposite. The entire point is that it's an artifical example to demonstrate irregularities.
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Was there such a point? The person who invented this spelling was 21 years old, if I'm reading the article correctly. Who knows, maybe the entire point of inventing it was to impress opposite sex.
...and then other people tried to use this word to advocate language reforms, of course. All I want to say is that this word doesn't make me feel there's need to change spelling rules. Other examples, like dough-through-enough are more moving.