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[Tom Zurinskas]

The word "lol" is not a word, but then again neither is "laf".  The word "laf" is fairly clear as to what it means.  The word "lol" has a conflict with an existing word "loll".  To say "We lolled" has a different meaning as well as laughed.

Don't get me wrong.  I'm not a big proponent of changing tradspel.  There are too many issues there.  But phonetic spelling needs an English friendly upgrade.

You're a military guy.  Truespel has a military application.  I think I can teach literate soldiers to read phonetically 5 languages in one day.  They would need English written underneath it to understand what they are saying.  But using an English friendly phonetic notation has true advantages.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
see truespel.com



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> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:02:48 -0600
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>> Would they call someone who used the term "lol" a nut?
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> I wouldn't think so, because "lol" is the standard spelling for the idea
> it represents, and not an eccentric respelling being advocated to solve
> a problem that either (doesn't exist) or (is practically speaking,
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>> see truespel.com
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>>>> Actually, with pronunciation changes should come spelling changes
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>>>> well. No? Why not "laf" instead of "laugh"? This is working with
>>>> what we have, not what we had centuries ago.
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>>> Here's a good reason not to spell "laugh" as "laf" in written
>>> communication:
>>> People will think you are a nut.
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>>> We used to have a secretary who would dot her lower-case i's with
>> little
>>> smiley faces. No one took her seriously on anything.
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