Translations are never perfect: they lack subtlety of hue, losing double meanings and speechly quirks.<\/p>\n
That’s why I barely touch them: I like originals<\/a>, not variations and opinions<\/a>. My Russian blog<\/a> is a thing of its own; one must know the tongue to fully appreciate it.<\/p>\n",
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"content_html": " Despite always being the best at English spelling in class, even amongst true natives, its inconsistencies bug me. That’s why I’m fascinated with the idea of English spelling reform.<\/p>\n An English spelling reform must not be a mandate, and government’s role in it should be limited to simply recognising and universally adopting the new spellings in its facilities.<\/p>\n A universal spell-as-you-pronounce reform is not a good idea, as it would designate a certain accent as “the correct one”. It would also lead to words losing their roots: spelling friend<\/i> as frend<\/i> would kill its connection to fiend<\/i>; spelling phlegm<\/i> as flem<\/i> or even just phlem<\/i> would disassociate it from its adjective phlegmatic<\/i>.<\/p>\n A good spelling reform sticks to rules that already exist, is easy on the eyes, and makes rules more consistent. I already spell the past verbal tense of focus<\/i> as focussed<\/i> and the plural of gas<\/i> as gasses<\/i>, to make it clear that these words do not rhyme with used<\/i> and phases<\/i> respectively. This idea can be expanded to other words: spelling intervocalic<\/i> as intervocallic<\/i>, since it does not rhyme with Gaelic<\/i>.<\/p>\n The British -our<\/i> spelling of words like colour<\/i> and flavour<\/i> has no reason to be, hence I will now be spelling these and similar words as color<\/i> and flavor<\/i>. This is retroäctive: I updated their spellings in my previous posts to make finding these words easier. I will also now spell the word mould<\/i> as mold<\/i>.<\/p>\n The perfect English spelling reform would be a grassroots initiative — our society agreeing that it is okay to “misspell” if doing so brings about orderly simplicity. I’m ready to be the first to begin.<\/p>\n Though<\/i>, although<\/i>, through<\/i>, and through-out<\/i> will become tho<\/i>, altho<\/i>, thru<\/i>, and thru-out<\/i>.<\/p>\n Small<\/i> will now be smol<\/i>: it’s cuter, and, well, smoller. (Smoler<\/i> rhymes with bowler<\/i>.)<\/p>\n",
"summary": "The inconsistencies of English spelling bug me. That’s why I’m fascinated with spelling reform",
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"title": "Pause in posting",
"content_html": " This blog doesn’t have a posting schedule.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, I find it important to say that I won’t be posting much in the next nine months as I am preparing for the Russian unified state exam and other atrocities.<\/p>\n",
"summary": "This blog doesn’t have a posting schedule",
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"url": "https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/all\/aegea\/",
"title": "Medium → Aegea",
"content_html": " I’ve been criticising Medium for a long time due to its inhumane policies, lack of RSS, and the inability to own own content.<\/p>\n I am not waiting for it to fix these problems, therefore I am proud to move this blog to Aegea, a blog engine where I own what I post. Welcome!<\/p>\n Older posts are slowly being transferred to this website.<\/p>\n",
"summary": "I’ve been criticising Medium for a long time due to its inhumane policies, lack of RSS, and the inability to own own content",
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}I will now spell the word light<\/i>, as in not heavy<\/i>, as lite<\/i>.<\/s> Updated Nov 20, 2022<\/p>\n