About Spelling
Just a matter of phonetics, ma’m?
Not only!
Any such relaxations lead to wobbly grammar, distorted tenses
to all sorts of ad hoc amendments,
small print, new rules, brand-new words
- and how or who on Earth,
could understand it?
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When the Libran lot get their heads together
- big mouths abetting, they start to ad lib
or play with alliteration, syntax
and meddle with linguistic protocols,
bend meanings, undo precedents,
Whatever’s next?
Incorporate pictographic symbols,
even emojis within a word?
Remove actual, orthodox letters?
Play with diacritics
add cedilla or I’rab suffixes?
Merge bitsy connectives - init?!
Use colloquialisms in holy text?
Abandoning all rules = anarchy.
Who decides? Where’s consensus?
Evolution pressures towards what?
Reading between lines!
Sign languages, silence?
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