~chooldrin

[Paul Johnston]

Here we go again....


On Oct 18, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: ~chooldrin
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>> From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
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>> "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
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> 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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