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from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
L’orthographe des langues est une convention dans laquelle la prononciation n’a que faire ; et la profonde erreur des grammairiens d’aujourd’hui, c’est d’avoir pris au pied de la lettre cet axiôme étourdi d’un grand écrivain : «L’orthographe est l’image de la prononciation.»
Charles Nodier (1780–1844)If one interprets this quotation correctly, it leads to an extreme wariness of the function of spelling and its relationship with pronunciation. After all, letters merely represent a series of conventional signs which we have come to identify with certain sounds. Whether such a quotation justifies contemporary text spelling is analyzed at the end of this chapter.
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