~chooldrin

[Tom Zurinskas]

>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>
>"Southern"?  I've been saying "chooldrin" all my life and will continue to
>do so long after I am dead.
>
>   As far as I can remember, my  grandparents pronounced it the same way.
>I can even remember commenting on the crazy spelling in grade school, only
>to be told "that's just the way it's spelled."
>
>   Tom's convinced me to honor the alphabetic principle, however.  From now
>on, I spell it <chooldrin>.
>
>   JL

No no no.  Hold on pahdnuh.  :-),   In my dream we do tradspeek, spoken as
traditionally spelled.
So we need to hold on to the "chill" in "children".

History shows changing spelling doesn't work.  Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew
Carnegie together tried and couldn't change even the simplest most obvious
spelling.  So the only way to go is change pronunciation to fit trad
spelling with tradspeek.  That way we end up with a phonetic language that's
easy to learn.  Literacy increases.  Crime decreases.  What a great dream.

Tom Z

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