[WikiEN-l] poor writing skills of some non-english speaking wiki contributors

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

I don't think it is in any way elitist. Everyone who writes English writes that way. But I don't think we will ever get a true phonetic spelling.

Stevertigo <stevertigo at attbi.com> wrote:I think this is nonsense. Proper English is a product of specialization.
English is not the property of English speakers, but a lingua franca that
everyone owns. Hence, its destined to become simplified - phonetic - scratch
that - fonetic speling iz tha furst thing laikli tu hapen tu English - or it
should. Someday soon.

All that registered - I dislike the tone of enforcing propriety. It smacks
of elitism.
The articles that Ive seen - written in funky English - are generally
intelligible - and If I come across one, Ill usually take time to edit it.

If someone wants to make it their perorgative to take this on as a task -
and to enlist other in it, then so be it. Bat formalaizing som kaind ov
Englo-defensyzm is the most tryvial of persuts. If that was the spirit in
which this was raised.

-S


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