Monday, March 12, 2018
Self-explanatory nothing
Question on quora: Why doesn't spelling reform happen?
The existing answers were inadequate, so I indulged my pointless fetish for cutesy self-explaining sentences. I wrote something like this:
Ynglisc speling rIform wont haepn bIkawz nobudi ken rid rIformd speling.
Quora chewed on the text for several minutes, presumably trying to autocorrect my "errors", and finally gave up without posting it.
Thus proving my point even more strongly than I intended! After spelling is well established by printing and widespread education, you can't change it by force ..... AND after spelling is hard-coded in software, it's even more rigid.
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