Truespel Spam

Tue Feb 5 01:26:07 UTC 2008

At 7:14 PM +0000 2/4/08, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>This is a wonderful open minded forum.  It's American.  I'm a dues
>paying member of the
>ADS and glad to participate.  I focus on phonetics and merely
>mention truespel to point out  that I do have expertise in this area
>having respelled the English language phonetically.  Not only that
>but I've done analyses of the frequency of phonemes in relation to
>their tradspeleeng (letter strings that spell phonemes).  I assume
>the ADS is the place to be to lead with ideas.
>
>As far as what you say is "hospitality and good will here" take a
>look at past emails directed at me.  Where I offer opinions and
>attack no one, I've come under personal attack frequently.  I've
>been called a troll, crank, ignorant, non-theological, and now you
>call me a spammer.  Check the emails as to hospitality.

I have been holding this in for a long time, and have taken the -- for me,
extremely rare -- step of killfiling Tom Zurinskas's emails so as not to be
unnecessarily irritated by his ignorant blatherings. But, of course, I see
them when others quote him, and for me this is the last straw.

I believe that Mr. Z. said that he works for the FAA. If I were doing in his
field what he is doing in ours, it might sound like this:

"Good afternoon, passengers, this is your pilot, Mark Mandel. Well,
actually, I don't have a pilot's license, or any of the nonsense they call
flight training. But I've watched planes fly overhead all my life. I've
spent time at airports watching them take off and land. I've even sat in
cockpits a few times. So I know all that needs to be known about flying, a
lot more than those people who have pieces of paper that entitle them to
wear uniforms or sit in offices and say that I don't know what I'm talking
about.

"As soon as we're in the air I'll put the plane on automatic pilot and come
down the aisle so you can buy some of the great books I've published on how
flying and aircraft control should be done. People *have* bought these from
me before, so no one can say I'm not a flight professional.

"Enjoy your flight.

"(Now, let's see, where's the gas pedal on this thing?)"

Mark A. Mandel

On Feb 4, 2008 2:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> At 7:14 PM +0000 2/4/08, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> >This is a wonderful open minded forum.  It's American.  I'm a dues
> >paying member of the
> >ADS and glad to participate.  I focus on phonetics and merely
> >mention truespel to point out  that I do have expertise in this area
> >having respelled the English language phonetically.  Not only that
> >but I've done analyses of the frequency of phonemes in relation to
> >their tradspeleeng (letter strings that spell phonemes).  I assume
> >the ADS is the place to be to lead with ideas.
> >
> >As far as what you say is "hospitality and good will here" take a
> >look at past emails directed at me.  Where I offer opinions and
> >attack no one, I've come under personal attack frequently.  I've
> >been called a troll, crank, ignorant, non-theological, and now you
> >call me a spammer.  Check the emails as to hospitality.
>
> I don't recall anyone calling you non-theological.
>
> LH
>
> >
> >My thrust is that a simplified English-based phonetic spelling is
> >necessary especially for children and second language learners.  It
> >appears that England is leaning this way as well.  See thier
> >phonetics at
> >
> http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/948809/nls_phonics028004intro.pdf
> >Take a look as well at the McGraw-Hill children's dictionary.  This
> >is another recent phonetic spelling.  I dare say no practical
> >English based phonetic system will use SAMPA.  This is America.
> >English is the lingua franca of the world because of the USA.  Time
> >to get with it.
> >
> >I've introduced several ways to put sound files in this forum, which
> >is about dialects.  I think we all should participate with sound
> >files of our speech whenever possible.  Glad to lead the way.
> >
> >Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> >See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems"
> >at authorhouse.com.
> >
> >>  Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:13:07 +0800
> >>  From: mcclay at TAOLODGE.COM
> >>  Subject: Truespel Spam
> >>  To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >>
> >>  ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> >>-----------------------
> >>  Sender: American Dialect Society
> >>  Poster: Russ McClay
> >>  Subject: Truespel Spam
> >>
>
> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>  Hey Tom --
> >>
> >>  TZ => My life's work now is truespel,
> >>  TZ => which is a simple phonetic spelling.
> >>
> >>  In my blunt opinion, this constant harping of the
> >>  Virtues of Truespel is bordering on rude spam to
> >>  this academic mailing list.
> >>
> >>  Personally I think you're taking advantage of the
> >>  hospitality and good will here with your repetitive
> >>  self-testimonials about your spelling system.
> >>
> >>  Cheers,
> >>  Russ
> >>
>
>
>

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