Truespel Spam

[Tom Zurinskas]

Zimmer and Mandel are both from UPenn, a fine institution outside Philly, recognized as America's first university, with Franklin Field, the oldest collegiate football field still in use and the country's first double-decked college stadium.  I once drove by looking for Steve Byrd who did some research with grad students on truespel there indicating it took only 15 minutes to learn.  Never did catch up to him when I lived in S Jersey.

UPenn was founded by Ben Franklin, a marvelous American.  He'd be great in this forum.  He was a spelling reformer, hoping to make English more in line with the alphabetical principle to better correlate letters to the sounds they represent.  I wonder if is pedigree as a mere printer in his early days would be suitable to Z and M.  I wonder what he would think of these two "excommunicators" of Americans from the American Dialect Society who would prefer an American phonetic spelling to a European one.

Regarding "ignorance" it is basically, unawareness.  So how then can it be theological or not or invincible?

Whate'ers begun in anger ends in shame  -  Ben Franklin

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at authorhouse.com.

> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:08:07 -0500
> From: bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
> Subject: Re: Truespel Spam
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Benjamin Zimmer
> Subject: Re: Truespel Spam
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 3:48 PM, Tom Zurinskas  wrote:
>>
> [Larry Horn wrote:]
>>> I don't recall anyone calling you non-theological.
>>
>> It was in the last MAM-ogram where he also wishes to stigmatize anyone responding to my posts.
>
> Hate to wade into this, but it's worth correcting the record: Mark M.
> never called Tom Z. non-theological. He called him "a perfect example
> of non-theological invincible ignorance." Parsing this requires
> knowing what the theological variety of "invincible ignorance" is.
> Easily Googled for non-initiates, first hit being from the Catholic
> Encyclopedia: "Ignorance is said to be invincible when a person is
> unable to rid himself of it notwithstanding the employment of moral
> diligence, that is, such as under the circumstances is, morally
> speaking, possible and obligatory." Tom Z., invincibly, took this to
> mean that he himself is non-theological. (Outside the theology of
> ADS-L? If only we had the powers of excommunication...)
>
> --Ben Zimmer
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

_________________________________________________________________
Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live.
http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org