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"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" Date: Wed Jun 28, 2000 2:34 pm Subject: Re: standardized spellings | ||||||||||||
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Valerie Sutton wrote: > The French are fortunate to have standardized spellings...I hope > someday that will happen in some countries with signed languages too. I'm interested to see you write that, and wondering what you think the advantages of standardized spellings are. I can't really think of an advantage, except perhaps for computer parsing, and the disadvantages are clear: - encouraging discrimination against people who haven't memorized all the standard forms - favoring a particular variety of the langauge (usually the variety of whoever is doing the standardizing) and encouraging discrimination against people who use different varieties. -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith Linguistics Department The University of New Mexico | ||||||||||||
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