XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí Iúil, scríobh Ruud Harmsen:   
      
    > Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:04:32 +0000: bertietaylor@myyahoo.com   
    > (bertietaylor) scribeva:   
    >   
    > >Many moons ago he had a tussle with Arindam. Arindam said that the   
    > >biggest drawback to teaching English was the absence of more letters in   
    > >the alphabet. It should be expanded as Shaw suggested. As a by product   
    > >English speakers would talk better and be better understood. In short,   
    > >make English more phonetic.   
    > >   
    > >Daniels deeply resented that. He said that things were fine as they are.   
    >   
    > I think so too. I read and write standard English much more easily   
    > than to write it in IPA. Also the more or less phonological spelling I   
    > myself devised in the 1970s, is very difficult to use even for me,   
    > although it was designed with the express purpose of being easier.   
    >   
    > The reason is that after the first learning stage of 6 years olds,   
    > people do not read and type in separate letters, but in word images,   
    > just like in the case of Chinese characters. (OK, there is debate   
    > whether words in Chinese are often 2 or 3 characters, or just one   
    > (learnt from PTD!), but that doesn't change the principle.)   
      
   I found my typing got better when I got in the habit, on making a mistake, of   
   deleting the entire word and starting it again, rather than the single   
   mis-typed letter. That is partial support for your idea. I haven’t seen this   
   approach suggested anywhere else, so it may not work for other people   
      
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