Stalins Organ
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By all means spell phonetically differently in each country - that'll just add colour/color, and we already pronounce words differently with the same spelling too........
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Yeah, well I did suggest that how we spell doesn't matter....so perhaps I'm guilty of a bit of hyperbole.....my gripe is actually that spelling is too complicated - 9 or 10 ways of pronouncing "-ough" is just not helpful so why not spell each phonetically and remove the problem?
I advocate set spelling - but simplified. Enuf is enuf, but enough is too much.
Coincidentially this got published in today's paper....
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Are you sure you understand what he meant to say?
Dunno who you were talking to, but I did despite the incorrect word being used....I chose to reply to the actual on the basis that stirring up the bottom dwelling muck was a reasonable metaphor.
Sorry if I overtaxed your comprehension.
I make mistakes, but regret and correct them.Organ makes mistakes, yet tries to make it your fault and problem.
That's the difference.
I thought the difference was I don't make up stories about what your attitudes are.
I claim that current English spelling is often arbitrary, complicated, confusing and a factor in literacy problems, and that we would all be better off if it were simplified.
But I guess that's a leap of logic too far for many.
It's amazing how it's such an untouchable institution.
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seems fair enough - the chinese are supporting the guy so he can happily ignore "the west" & continue massacring anyone he feels like.
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Spelling in France:
baisse-toi --- Duck your head down
Apparently often used in the sense of "bend over so we can both watch X-files", and so not so far removed from.....
Baise-toi ---- Screw yourselfJust as well I didn't mention French then
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"The School of Redundancy School"
Depends on what you mean by "problem",
That many people have trouble with their native English spelling all their lives, whereas, say, Spanish & Italian have no trouble with spelling their native language.
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If they simply said "Alice threw the looking glass" (i.e., with the sort of straightforward cadence and emphasis implied by the lack of distinguishing punctuation) I would think, "Why did she do that?"
If they said what sounded like "Alice, threw the looking glass" (in this rendition the comma indicates a momentary pause, which would imply a separation between the subject, Alice, and that which phonetically could be a verb or a preposition), I would think they were speaking of the character Alice and the literary work said character was featured in.
Quite.
context is everything. Punctuation is very useful for context and in the written word is seks to convey those cadences and emphasis (emphases??) that the spoken word conveys - I have no problem with punctuation.
It's only the idea that "correct" spelling is untouchable/set in stone/important that I take issue with - English is about the only modern language where spelling is actually a problem.
Ghoti & chips anyone?
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Aff your undoubtably wonderfully amusing point has gone way over my head - I must have been built by Austrlians so I'm sitting too low in the water!
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Also, real examples happen all the time and, again, the way to resolve ambiguity isn't by adding more ambiguity - it's by mocking the lackwits who think that is the solution.
I'm glad we obviously agree that the way to solve ambiguity isn't arbitrary spelling restrictions.
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Misunderstandings are part oflife - they occur with perfect spelling and bad spelling, and with no spelling at all (spoken). They are a function of humanity, not of spelling.
If you were told Alice threw the looking glass how would you know if it was destruction of property or literary masterpiece?
again - context - simply writing the sentence provides none, and it is only becuse there is no context that there is potential for ambiguity.
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And yet everyone actually understood all the "silly" spelling examples written down.......they're not evidence of how necessary spellign is - they're evidence of how it is not necessary at all!
We take meaning of spoken words from context - we do NOT always have the opportunity to query the meaning (eg film & television), and with all those "silly" spelling examples we took the meaning from the context without any great bother too.
and in these parts "rays" is not pronounced the same as "race"!
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The private dick ...
Not very private after that!
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it doesn't matter how we "spell" when we speak, so why should it matter when we write?
there/their, to/too/two, at least 10 ways of pronouncing "-ough" (eg enough, brough, bough, thought....slough has 3 different pronunciations......)
why bother?
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Yep - we look to people who have operated boats of a type we want for some period of time - the Irish have to put up with the Nth Atlantic - why wouldn't we?
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It's not a New Zealand design - ships of this class are in service with the Mauritanean coast Guard & Irish navy sine the mid 90's.
AFAIK the modifications for light ice resistance (0.4m of broken early season ice!) are not a problem.
the delivery problem is not the ships themselves (a opposed to the weight problem which is the ships), but something to do with the sea boats they carry - 2 were deployed on HMNZS Canterbury & 1 was destroyed & the other damaged by high seas.
then a seaman was killed when a boat overturned during deployment.
AFAIK the argument is whether these problems are intrinsic to the design or a fault of the builder - ie who has to pay for them.
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Cue arguments about hemp being made illegal in the late 30's to protect the synthetic fibre industry.....
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As opposed to all the great purchases professionals make all around the world?
We're a small country - we screw up - we're used to it - I suggest you get used to it too.
But it's still fun to poke borax at the Aussies when we do get it right and they don't, or it's their fault
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I was under the impression that a lot of Glantz's reputaion comes from being one of the first historians to get into the Soviet archives after the dissolution of the USSR.
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The first 6 words made sense.
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No. We got the usual. See Collins class subs and SeaSprite helicopters.
Our Seasprites are fine
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Somebody else had to believe your hype sooner or later...
And while displacment is indeed be designed, the trials are to PROVE that the design was accurate and that the boat was actually built to it.......and you got nabbed
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That would be a "not any more" then?!
:D:D
Today's grammar howler
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no - they're the slimey ones that lurk around in dark holes looking to catch any unwary swimmers that pass by