Re:English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals
by DrIronstein on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:04AM
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Reminds me of Lord Timothy Dexter's book 'Pickle for the knowing ones'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones
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Re:English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals
by ajb on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:28AM
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Amazing: After receiving complaints about the lack of punctuation, Dexter published a second edition in 1805, this time containing pages full of punctuation in the appendix. He tells the readers to "peper and solt it as they plese."
Amusing though these are, they illustrate why spelling reform is hard in English: spelling correctly has become a status marker, and any changed spelling looks not merely wrong, but also stupid and deserving of contempt.