>>The thread has a tree structure. Just go upwards to message #1194472 - don't fork anywhere.
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>Oh, I saw that - but no mention of co-ordinates!

Only in the last sentence, not much.

>>Though, I was emjuzd only by the first half of it - somewhere around the middle he begins making the case against phonetic English, applying reductio ad absurdum (still funny, but not amusing anymore) just to show what sort of chaos would follow.
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>Spelling of amjuzd above a baltic slip-up?

Nou, det voz intenšnl.

>Just think of the billions of words written that would suddenly become like Olde Englishe to read, need to be rewritten. If one had to learn the old spelling in order to read the old books then one mi's well just carry on with it!
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>Besides, texting and email-speak will eventually erode the lang to fonetiks N E way

Not so sure - while there are some trends towards it (spelling "the" as "da", or -er as -a), there's actually a lot of play with names of letters, as u r aware. Besides, phonetic spelling would simply kill half of the advertising industry, because different spelling wouldn't count as a different brand anymore. Cleaniques==cleenix=kliniks, period.