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Dr. Who has obviously been exterminated, annihilated!
As we will be in 2012 – the day the Mayan calender ends – when the LHC makes its first (and only) black hole
Re AOL Chatroom, writing in the language of Shakespeare :
More than EIGHTY contemporary spellings of Shakespeare’s name have been found. There are only six known signatures made by the Good Bard, no two spelled the same, he even spelled his own name in two different ways in the same document! Much Ado about Nothing, indeed!
I guess “black hole” sent your comment into moderation (LOL).
It would be interesting to trace the development of the English idea of “correct” spelling. In Shakespeare’s day it was obviously not as settled. Perhaps they took a cue from the French? I’m thinking of the efforts of L’Académie française.
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
Oh man, that’s priceless. Stupid idea that is going to generate massive traffic.
They haven’t pasted any ads on it yet, though.
I can imagine Google’s Adsense: “Find cheap colliders”
“Is your world ending?”
I bet that idiotic academic has tenure.
I don’t understand why a professor of phonetics wants simplification — is he trying to sell himself out of a job?
Chip,
normalisation of spelling generally came about as a result of the introduction of the printing press. Because more people had seen the same word spellt/spelt the same way.
American spelling often differs from British spelling because
a) the languages drifted apart as people emigrated, taking (and freezing in) the older spellings with them.
b) few books/newspapers were taken transatlantic and the immigrants were – then as now – from the poorer and less well educated end of the spectrum, who preferred/created more phonetic spellings, eg nite/night, orl korrect(OK)?
just my 2c, YMMV
Good point. The wider the distribution of the printed word, the more normali(z|s)ed spelling would become. I suppose that means that the Internet will lead to greater normalization, as it creates instantaneous global distribution.
I just hope it doesn’t all end in lolcats, kthx.