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Re:Ghoti by tryauuum on Saturday June 20, 2020 @08:02PM (#23588515)
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.
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Re:Ghoti by tryauuum on Saturday June 20, 2020 @08:10PM (#23588553)
...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.
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Re:Ghoti by tom_ on Saturday June 20, 2020 @08:36PM (#23588667)
Well, 31, if my calculator is correct! - but, it's very true that you're never too old to want to impress people, whether for sexual purposes or not.
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