[B-Greek] In defense of "Orthography" (was: "Excluded Middle (was 'B-Greek Year End Awards')"
Timothy S. Nelson
wayland at wayland.id.au
Thu Jan 7 18:24:18 EST 2010
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Carl Conrad wrote:
> The problem with attempts at overhauling orthographical
> conventions is that almost any alternative adopted seems
> somewhat arbitrary. I might note that George Bernard
> Shaw left some of his estate to pay for creation of a new
> and rational orthography for English; what came of it was
> what was called the "Initial Teaching Alphabet"
> with acronym ITA; my son used it in Kindergarten in
And here was me thinking it was the Shavian alphabet :).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet
:)
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