Wordplay

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This week there was a piece of heterography e.g. spelling fish as ghoti

So, for those of you who don't subscribe, try putting this one into it's normal spelling.

GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU

By way of a hint, I'll tell you that the first substitution requires using a British English phoneme.

Good luck.

More on the twit at Hullabaloo

In addition to venting here, I made a comment at Making Light.

xopher_vh was offended, and gave her a piece of his mind.

This is what I realised as I looked at his comments, and the things which were said at Making Light, so (because y'all were kind enough to chime in) decided to share my thoughts there, with you here.

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Xopher: I'm gladdened, and saddened, that you waded in.

Saddened because the response was more of the same (in both tone, and content). The tail end of that, with Virgil, troll, and JB all giving each other ego-boo for being pure, and justified was past offensive, and into downright surreal.

What irked me, as I look back, ties into the comment on expendable I teased you with earlier. Bear with me.

I am expendable. If sending me someplace I am likely to be killed will gain a real advantage, the commander is right, even duty bound to send me.

I can live with that.

Jill doesn't see me (or my fellows) as expendable, but rather disposable. That's not something I can live with, nor even abide.

But, and here is where it gets amusing, she wants to see the US lose (whether or not we can win is a different question; I think that were our winning more likely her vehemence would be stronger).

And those who are following orders, are traitors, because we aren't working to see the US lose.

That's in Humpty Dumpty land.