Posted on 07/06/2006 9:29:22 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
Good point. Shows how little thought is put into these "movements". No wonder they can't spell. They are not very bright at all.
We need an American St. Cyril to devise a phonetic alphabet for English. At present, we don't have one.
Lord Jesus, please deliver us from the lunatics!
Wel, I must sae that thiss iz a readickulus eyedeeuh. How stoopid kan u b?
Ahmo -- regional dialect for "I am going to"
presenunitedstates -- universal these days for President of The United States. This one really, really ticks me off. Bunch of lazy-assed people who can't be bothered to actually say separate words.
They have the TIME to protest, of course.
They keep writing their own resume`s, and maiing them out, but for some reason, the DPW refuses to hire them as garbage collectors or ditch diggers.
Have you read Jeff Foxworthy's redneck dictionary?
Why is it stupid?
Only English and French have spelling so utterly divorced from the pronunciation of the language. Is it really a good thing that Samuel Johnson froze the spelling of English spelling a few generations before the previously fluid spelling would have simplified itself naturally?
Sure the parodic phonetic spellings given are absurd (Who actually pronounces "capture" "capcher"?). It's been done before: Korean is written with a constructed script that actually gives instruction on how to form the mouth to make the sounds once one knows the system, the Scandinavian languages have all undergone spelling reforms, the Chicoms simplified their pictographic script, Russian was given a rational system of spelling when the Rus converted to Orthodoxy.
We Americans even simplified our spelling so that our children have coloring books, not colouring books, and we harmonize rather than harmonise. I guess Noah Webster was stupid for doing that?
"Have you read Jeff Foxworthy's redneck dictionary?"
I haven't, and if you ask me again, ahmo kick your a$$! [grin]
LOL.
European - "Ah'm tellin' ya, y'all drink too much beer and european all night long..."
why is it stupid ?
cause it becomes ebonics for white people and that ends up makin Mad Max Waters right.
can't have that.
ptrn recagntion alows us undrstnd all knds ov wrtin stuf at a glance. try it yorself -- its amazng! Ov corse many ar usng a sort ov intrnet short hnd alrdy.
tar arn - used to remove hubcaps and lugnuts from automobile wheels..
You have a point, but there are several problems with it. When reading silently, the spellings of the words give important clues to the meanings. Since English is a hodge-podge language, made up of borrowings from many other languages, the spelling of words enhances our ability to understand what is being written.
Further, with as many homophones as exist in English, reading would be very difficult if they were spelled alike.
There, their, and they're are good examples of this. Each spelling adds information to the written word.
My other example of regional pronunciation differences is another reason to retain current spellings. It's even worse in England.
True. I first heard of this stupid idea in the late 60s. I thought then -- and think now -- that the main thrust is to cut off students even more from access to the past. It's not enough that the textbooks are full of left-wing propaganda; what if someone should actually read, for example, the founding documents.
This looks like ITA spelling from the 1960's
The Bolsheviks simplified Russian spelling after they took over. The pre-Revolutionary alphabet had several redundant letters which represented the same sound.
"The Bolsheviks simplified Russian spelling after they took over. The pre-Revolutionary alphabet had several redundant letters which represented the same sound."
Correct. Earlier Russian is as easy to pronounce as modern Russian, but there were some supernumerary letters, at least one of which, the tvyordisnak, did not have a sound at all, and was truly redundant. They did retain the myakisnak, however, since it did modify the pronunciation of the preceding consonant, even though it, too, has no sound of its own.
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