Re: Knowing when to use "it's" and "its"

On Jul 10, 9:18 pm, António Marques <ento...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3 Jul, 22:42, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Jul 3, 4:48 pm, Iain <iain_inks...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 3, 9:40 pm, Iain <iain_inks...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Or to cut a long story very short...

I said this:

" For example, I cannot think of any justification at all for the E at
the end of
"medicine". Nor can I think of a reason why V cannot be doubled and
must always be followed by an E if it would otherwise be last. To
remove these rules would not interfere with MORPHEMIC clarity, and if
anything would almost unilaterally improve phonemic accuracy. We could
have Liv, Alive, Live, Livving, etc, not to mention Hav. It would be
nice to kill the E in Were also. Just tidy the commonplace words a
little, so that it's not a total shambles. "

And you, inexplicably, responded immediately with this:

" Like all spelling tamperers (my new name for spelling "reformers"),
you are operating with the simplistic notion that a one-to-one letter-
to-phoneme equivalence is the ideal orthographic system in all
circumstances. It isn't. "

Because there was no point in pointing out that you had now multiplied
the spelling of the morpheme to <liv> and <live> and <livv>, as
opposed to the existing system which keeps the spelling of a morpheme
constant plus a handful of combinatory rules (such as drop -e before -
ing).

I think the morpheme border is expected to suffer erosion, so they're
not really very distressing. Dutch slaap / slapen is weirder (long
vowels are VVC / VC-, whereas short ones are VC / VCC-), though
regularity makes it manageable.

One would expect you to favour <theatre>, <centre>, no?-

There is no advantage between "theatre" and "theater".
.

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