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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1962456" data-attributes="member: 2205">Or is that proper spelling?&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> My rather oblique point was that the letters exist for a reason, and you can't simply ignore them and say, &quot;hey, I know this is written like this, but it's really pronounced differently.&quot;&nbsp; You may say that English has a fair amount of spelling irregularities and letters that are not pronounced.&nbsp; Light, for example.&nbsp; Why isn't it spelled lite?That's a different kettle of fish, though.&nbsp; The spelling of light is like a time capsule to how the word used to be pronounced; all of those letters were once said.&nbsp; It doesn't simply ignore the rules for spelling and pronunciation, the spoken language simply drifted, which is a process that happens all the time.&nbsp; It's not arbitrary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1962456, member: 2205"] Or is that proper spelling? :cool: My rather oblique point was that the letters exist for a reason, and you can't simply ignore them and say, "hey, I know this is written like this, but it's really [i]pronounced[/i] differently." You may say that English has a fair amount of spelling irregularities and letters that are not pronounced. Light, for example. Why isn't it spelled lite? That's a different kettle of fish, though. The spelling of light is like a time capsule to how the word used to be pronounced; all of those letters were once said. It doesn't simply ignore the rules for spelling and pronunciation, the [b]spoken[/b] language simply drifted, which is a process that happens all the time. It's not arbitrary. [/QUOTE]

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