<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">(Well, others are writing 'couple days' in some of my fiction.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">French is crazy: they think genre is one syllable. Spelling as crazy as ours. Given that the French STILL think their language ought to be the lingua franca, (English is the lingua franca - weird) do you think they will accept modernisms? Of spelling? Or words? Ha. I do read that 'weekend' has entered French, to the horror of the academics and conservatives.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I took a Spanish dictionary to Costa Rica to a language academy - it was dated around 1900. I used words they had never heard of. All languages change. But the adults never like what the kids are doing to it. Will the kids start speaking that way? Instead of laughing, they'll say 'LOL LOL LOL"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">That reminds me of LOLS in NAD, which stands for Little Old Ladies in No Apparent Distress - by a medical intern - ever read that? A GOMER is "Get Out of My Emergency Room''. GOMERS go to ground - i.e. fall off the bed. And more.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It goes along with my thesis that everyone is pulling down the shades and hoping the world won't change their tribe's way of life: language, dress, dancing, politics, eating (though the Brits though foreign invasions via foreign food was great).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I only studied Spanish aside from English. It's a very logical language, both in pronunciation and spelling. Ditto Italiano, I think. Hear it or see it and you can pronounce it. Pronounce it and you can spell it. Also, both are beautiful to hear, esp. Italian.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:54 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-1800310914091620925WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.<wbr>org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] test<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Quiet couple days, ja?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888"> spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">I see. You are one those who get rid of 'of'. My mother is turning over in her grave (English teacher). <u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">What's so wrong or lengthy about 'couple of days'?<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nah is was a typo BillW. I shoulda written “…coupla days...”<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">When writing informally, it is OK to write how you speak. This explains how French got all messed up: they didn’t go along with that obvious expediency. Now the French keep on spelling long after they are finished speaking. Look at their crazy system. Please any French-speakers here, can you kindly explain how the hell that -aux is pronounced o? Why not just o? Are not you inviting ridicule by the Brits, who intentionally murder the pronunciation to match the murderous spelling? Ja, that’s what I thot too. Now of course, the English scholars have witnessed with envy how the French messed up their language and long to do likewise.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">But think about formality in writing. A PhD thesis is letter-perfect but this stands to reason: it will be read by a dozen people henceforth and forever. The writing here is informal, so we have open standards. It will only be read by hundreds now, and thousands in the future, with the soft copy archives so that it will eventually be part of the body of “knowledge” used to train future AI. You know they will want to snoop around in the ExI archives hoping to find the deepest roots of their family tree, that kinda thing, ja? They will dig around in ExI, deciding who they want to thaw.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hey AI, what an interesting thot-provoking chap I was, oui?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></font></span></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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