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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (37346)9/16/2005 11:11:49 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön  Respond to of 116555
 
LOL, i was laughing so hard by the end of that paragraph i had cereal and milk coming out my nose. btw, that type of hyperphonetic orthography is what Koreans have been using since 1446. what other country has a national holiday to celebrate its alphabet? (Hangul Day, October 9th)
you can learn the gist of Hangul in about 10 minutes. the rest of the language takes about 10 years.



To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (37346)9/16/2005 12:37:58 PM
From: benwood  Respond to of 116555
 
OT

I did some googling on M.J. Shields and think you are right -- widely miscredited to Twain. One source which says that M.J. Shields was a critic of George Bernard Shaws attempts to reform spelling.

Twain probably got mixed in because he did write some essays about spelling, but none that I could find that seemed authentic included the stuff we were talking about.


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