Please comment on these generalizations. Does everyone agree with them or are there some that you take issue with. They were written by Prof. Chris Upward...
That may or may not be true, but we have no evidence of it here. Rather, without evidence it sounds like a five year old calling someone names. Yet, I am sure...
At it again, "Barry"? Years ago, Upward sent me unsolicited his Simplified Spelling Society's book, insisted on maintaining an email correspondence, and...
... Yeah, if you send single sentence opinions unsupported by any facts known to the rest of us, on a topic that may be of interest, I will always call you out...
Who the hell do you think you are, "Barry"? (You sure don't give any of the rest of us any hint of who you are.) If you have an interest in spelling reform,...
Who the hell do *you* think I am? Every time you complain I am hiding, I get private messages form people laughing at you once they figure out how easy it is...
... I think you're an ignorant blowhard and bully who knows and cares nothing about writing systems, but who appointed himself the task of teaching me manners....
... Which just shows how little you seem to know about anything outside the narrow area of writing systems, including the closely related concept of ...
... Peter is absolutely correct that I don't consider myself among the divine. If Peter is among the divine, well then I will have learned something cool today...
Hi Steve, If I may speak as a teacher - ... Definitely, this statement is meaningless without definitions, as Mr. Daniels has said. However, children do go...
... A quick google search only shows results by either prose literacy or document literacy and many international studies have too few participant countries to...
As below. Benjamin Barrett _____ From: qalam@yahoogroups.com [mailto:qalam@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Bett Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:31 PM To:...
Barry and Peter, Peter is probably on target with the late Chris Upward being a spelling reform advocate. (see www.spellingsociety.org) keyword Upward). Other...
Suzanne, Thank you for your thoughtful comments. ... SB: I wouldn't say meaningless. I would say open to several possible interpretations and therefore...
... OK, OK, kids, welcome back in "moderated mode". Please don't be surprised if the two of you won't always be able to post during the night, during week...
... When did he die? ... Which remarks? The comments on the "generalizations"? (Some of which were statements of fact, some statements of opinion, and some too...
... Morris Swadesh and Kenneth Pike? Where did they pronounce on this topic? Pike's concern was to "reduce" unwritten languages to writing, and, having grown...
... English Spelling Reform projects are a dime a dozen and almost as controversy-generating as IALs. If English spelling is ever reformed, it will be at a...
My only comment about the controversy in #747 is that the chief problem now with respelling the English language would be the choosing of which dialect of...
... I wonder if someone could help me out on this idea. Does the use of the word "simple' for alphabet come from the German word "einfach?" It seems that...
... Where did they pronounce on this topic? SB: A reference is provided below. ... SB: Where is the evidence that he was wrong? If the writing system he...
... Upward is/was the head of the Simplified Spelling Society and as such commanded greater attention than the run-of-the-mill spelling reform crackpot. -- ...
... writing, ... reflexively ... simply "phonemic") ... Didn't Pike state a phonemic orthography was optimal and then quote himself to prove it was optimal? ...
... And if a syllabary could be learned in 7 weeks, does that make it _more_ optimal? ... Ataturk "insisted" on a non-religious orthography. He was a...
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