Orthographic reform as a national priority, an ADS responsibility

[W Brewer]

Subject: Orthographic reform as a national priority, an ADS responsibility

JB wrote: <<< I began an email, "I think you're write" [W]hy does it happen?
>>>

WB: <<<Sounds like a shill for Tom Zurinskas. Problem: Prescriptivism,
a.k.a. linguistic bullying. Solution: Phonemicized orthography. Why hasn't
ADS made this a national priority?>>>
WG: <<<Which subdialect do you wanr to be the basis of the new
orthography?>>>
WB: Let a hundred dialects bloom.

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