rama (07/30/82)
It is interesting to note that so many people are ever so anxious to destroy the beauty of the English language. As it is, English as spoken by the Americans is distorted to a painful degree. (No offence meant - I am just pointing out a well known fact!!) I am at a loss to understand why one would want to distort it further with all this talk of phonetic/rational spelling. I hope English survives this new attack. Prof. Higgins' remark about the use of English language from the movie "My Fair Lady" comes to my mind: 'Well in America they haven't used it for years'!! Kishore Ramachandran rama@uwisc