molly.com
Wednesday 9 February 2005
no fone no fone
IS IT JUST ME? Am I the only one that is reacting to what’s wrong here? This, from an airline ticket, triple X’s added for your pleasure:
FONE: XXX-745-6000
FAX: XXX-734-8276
Filed under: humor
Posted by: Molly | 19:38 | Comments (16)
Pernhaps it was written like that as a protest to the English language’s historical spelling rules. If you must now, the reason we spell some ‘f’ sounds with a ‘ph’ is the Greeks’ fault. Blame them.
I’d like to believe it was a typo. Americans can fake putting a man on the moon yet they can’t spell ‘phone’? WTF?
Dante, Wouldn’t that be WTPh?
Dante,
Now that you mention it, it’s really weird that English speakers spell words of Greek origin with “ph.” It’s not like Greek has the same character for p and f.
Dante, my thoughts exactly.
Travis: Ha! That was a killer retort. Too funny.
Nice Cake ref, by the way.
Maybe they spent too much time at AOL’s Moviefone or had to look up their number on Fone Finder. Or maybe they’re trying to save on ink by spelling fonetically.
Did you send them an “emale” to find out why?
Personally, I prefer ‘vox’ to ‘voice’ or ‘phone,’ but that’s just me.
blame us graphic desingers…we can’t spel
Hei, I think the Eenglish languaj shöd be spelled foneticly lík this, don’t yu?
It goes beyond ‘ph’ as ‘f’. ‘Ch’ as ‘kh’ for words that were spelt with the letter Χ, and the silent h after r, like in rhino and rhetoric.
Does it scare anyone else that the country with the most dumb people is also on of the most powerful?
Molly,
You should see how teenagers (as well as many older ones) write their SMS, e-mails and the like, over here in France.
I think English is much easier to spell and write (esp. on the web) than French. It’s a massacre on the French blogosphere. Many times has poor spelling stopped me from reading an otherwise engaging post. It really hurts your credibility when you accumulate spelling mistakes in French. But you can’t avoid it, you’ll eventually have to read the content and disregard the lack of orthography.
It’s a sad state of affairs.
Is there total disregard for diacritics too? I have it when I see people write ‘naive’ and ‘cooperate’. It’s ‘naïve’ and ‘coöperate’.
Since when does cooperate have an umlaut?
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thanks