Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Regarding Sampson, "What's good is not new, and what's new is not good."
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Like they say in the papers, "if it's news to you, it's news to us." At
the time when I read the book, it was something I had not yet heard.

>English spelling is widely regarded as quasi-logographic (giving rise to
>the "whole word" method of Leaving Every Child Behind), and it most
>certainly is not "horrendously inconsistent" or "in no wise a system"!
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There are some deeply-buried consistencies that are hard to tease out,
certainly. Sami is Finnish, so he's used to a nearly all-phonemic
spelling system, and he also has a tendency to get polemical...

~mark