Re: OT: But I love this quote!

On Oct 6, 1:41 pm, Lucky <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Danny T wrote:
Its CLERICAL and nothing more.

Actually, it's a language that I love.

Maybe it's the Sarah Palin thing. "I might not answer the way you or the
moderator want me to."

I've posted a few of my favorite quotes on the matter of spelling.
I've dedicated my life to nose thumbing those that would believe that
the correct spelling of a word came before its meaning or ability to
draw a picture.

Lucky, you may have a talent for the clerical and a love for it the
same but you look past expression and see grammatical misses and
letters out of place, instead of seeing the swirl of the spoken brush.
Time is precious and wasting it on following someone else's traditions
is quite the same as discarding a symphony for the sake of a broke
rule of musical counterpoint.

Not everything I write is meant to be a canvas of inspiration but it
is meant to express something, of which letters and commas will not
get in my way.

Now, my favorite quotes:

Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain (1835-1910) Quotes starting with
my favorite of all -
Mark Twain Quotes ... I respect a man who knows how to spell a word
more than one way.

Mark Twain
"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling
words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes
alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a
correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is
such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always
spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it
with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader
field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague,
impressive new kind of a cow."
- speech at a spelling match, Hartford, Connecticut, May 12, 1875.
Reported in the Hartford Courant, May 13, 1875

....simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry
it too far.
- The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling speech, December 9, 1907

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more,
merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I
could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor
and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose
that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not
an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it
is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able
to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort
transfers the distinction to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a
matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling
yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men
unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added
enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their
spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a
doubtful benevolence to us.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
....ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary
of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-
five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and
legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every
unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word
of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory
of the revered crime.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
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