From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Wed Apr 01 2009 - 15:51:04 CST
On 1 Apr 2009, at 22:54, John H. Jenkins wrote:
> It doesn't come from Mark Twain. The source of this is ultimately
> Dolton Edwards' "Meihem in ce Klasrum", which first appeared in the
> September 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The ISFDB notes
> that this is, "short and popular, so frequently retyped / copied
> online, often mutated and mis-attributed." See also <http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j31/satires.php
> >.
OK. Thank you. I had my doubts myself. I just copied it from the net.
But it is very illustrative of the problems of spelling reform and
language design.
Hans
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