Re: Letters with **three** cases?



Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Nigel Greenwood wrote:
> >
> > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Perhaps because it turned out that the victims of ita never learned to
> > > spell what they called TO (traditional orthography).
> >
> > Could you give us some references to this outcome, please? I don't
> > doubt what you say: it's just that I'm not familiar with the follow-up
> > studies.
>
> Purely anecdotal. Either there were no studies, or else they were
> suppressed; but the few ita victims I have met admit that they can't
> spell.
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx

I can add anecdotal support. One of my friends is clever but a poor
speller, he even had embarrassing spelling mistakes in his PhD thesis.
He blames this on having been subjected to ITA as a child.

I have heard other similar stories as well.

--
Seán O'Leathlóbhair

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