03-12-2021, 09:38 AM
In this country everything now is through some lens.
English is remarkable in that persons can get by with the very minimum. Yet the total choice of words and shades of meaning is vast. Over the decades I have done a fair amount of writing making submissions to Council, govt etc. No one checks the grammar so probably dubious. But what amazes me is the number of times I still have to check exact meaning and spelling of words. George Bernard Shaw advocated review of spelling with a view to great simplification. It would dent the egos of the very able but with so much else to know nowadays seems an idea which should be revived. It might persuade even more of the world to adopt English. Meanwhile in this once progressive country, for career security all are now more or less obliged to learn a mostly recent contrived version of the native stone age language.....
English is remarkable in that persons can get by with the very minimum. Yet the total choice of words and shades of meaning is vast. Over the decades I have done a fair amount of writing making submissions to Council, govt etc. No one checks the grammar so probably dubious. But what amazes me is the number of times I still have to check exact meaning and spelling of words. George Bernard Shaw advocated review of spelling with a view to great simplification. It would dent the egos of the very able but with so much else to know nowadays seems an idea which should be revived. It might persuade even more of the world to adopt English. Meanwhile in this once progressive country, for career security all are now more or less obliged to learn a mostly recent contrived version of the native stone age language.....