Posted by Billy Joe on 09/13/05 22:28

anthonyberet wrote:
> Nate wrote:
>> Oh, Hammerer, I am a VERY complicated guy.
>>
>> Yourself TALK i mean as in do you listen to Hammerer talk. Maybe i
>> need to speak in 3rd-person to get thru to you.
>>
>
> Oh, you just reminded me that the first time I ever saw the word
> 'through' spelled 'thru' was in a Starwars comic-book, that I read in,
> um, about 1978.
> I was puzzled then, and it still makes me wince when I see it.
> - Not that I dislike US spellings per se, but that particular one gets
> on my wick.

Shaw definitely had the right idea. Written language should "echo" (pun
intended) the spoken language. There should be no such thing as differently
spelt homonyms. We are obliged to infer from spoken context which
definition a word takes on, and we do so effortlessly (for the most part).
Why is it necessary to struggle with archaic spelling patterns?

If I wrote, "Hough nough brown cough" you'd still know what I meant, eh?
Just in case one doesn't, they "rime" with bough ;-0)

Jestingly:
Slew, slow, sluff
-----------------------
I once took a girl named Sue
across a Washington slough.
While there we saw a cow
That was mired in the slough.
When set free, it was in a huff;
so eager the mud to slough.

BJ

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