VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
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<DIV>In an earlier mail (regarding city renaming), I was critical</DIV>
<DIV>of non-phonetic spelling of "Question". Well, thinkers of</DIV>
<DIV>the past, decades ago, may have thought it was prudent</DIV>
<DIV>to keep relationship with word "Quest". I find English has</DIV>
<DIV>many merits, except for its irregular spellings. I work on</DIV>
<DIV>a parallel English, with simpler spellings, made phonetic</DIV>
<DIV>to a large extent. Even there I find it necessary to deviate</DIV>
<DIV>from the phonetic principles, in a few cases. Thus, plural</DIV>
<DIV>of (dog) is (dogs) with an easy rule of adding (s) for plural,</DIV>
<DIV>as in (cats). Actually (dogz) would be better phonetically.</DIV>
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<DIV>Refer E01 E02 on my website (<A href="http://www.mngogate.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>www.mngogate.com</A>) and</DIV>
<DIV>note (e) on Index page. Probably every language has got </DIV>
<DIV>some illogical features. In Marathi, we say, equivalent to</DIV>
<DIV>(insert shoe in foot) while really (foot is inserted in shoe).</DIV>
<DIV>Language is for people, and not just for scholars. People </DIV>
<DIV>do not mind some odd features ! -- Madhukar N. Gogate</DIV>
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