[projectaon] Re: serial comma
- From: "David Davis" <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 18:16:18 +0100
lol
Spellings (or dare I say "orthography") in English are often etymological.
In the US, as well as refusing to pay us taxes ;) they seem to have decided to
"correct" some of these spellings some some kind of rationalised/reformed
phonetic spelling.
I don't really get this wikipedia-bashing thing either.
As long as you keep a healthy skepticism about it, it is extremely handy
for looking things up in a quick and casual manner (which is all that was being
done).
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Wall
To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 5:48 PM
Subject: [projectaon] Re: serial comma
Wow. Ugly? :)
>>We haven't changed the spelling of British-English words to their ugly
American
counterparts (the word 'plow' makes me shudder), we are merely updating some
of
the punctuation to be more modern. After all, the way the previous publishers
handled such matters is a moot point since they released the books riddled
with
errors and inconsistencies.
Project Aon--21st Century Publishing, Baby.
--
Simon Osborne
Project Aon Pedant
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