Posted on 07/06/2006 9:29:22 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
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(Translation: This article is a load of crap, and so is the idea. If people can't read, write, or comprehend the intentions of another's reding and writing, perhaps they should have paid more attention in their Englis classes and NOT been give social promotions!!)
I've noticed that the people who holler about how we don't need to know how to spell - that spell-checkers and admin assistants take care of that - are always the ones who couldn't spell to save their lives.
reding = reading
Englis = English
Perhaps I should have read my own comments before posting.
I tried to plead innocent to my last speeding ticket, on the grounds that the local fishwrap portrayed several notable defendants as having done so in the prior weeks.
The judge, as you might have guessed, was less than amused.
I think the word part in the English language that is most confusing must be "ough", as in rough (uff), cough (off), bough (ow), through (oo), and so on (there are a few words where it makes an "oh" sound, but I can't think of an example off the top of my head. For that matter, the "gh" ending as an "eff" sound makes even less sense.
And yet, I'd hate to see it go away becuase the complexities off the English language tell such an intersting tale.
Southerner: Hey, where y'all from?
Visitor: Texas.
Southerner: Yew shure don't sound like yer frum Texas.
Visitor: Well, I was born and raised there.
Southerner: I can prove yew ain't frum Texas. Can yew spell rat?
Visitor: Sure. R-A-T
Southerner: See, that proves yew ain't frum Texas. I meant like "do it rat now!".
[Loses a bit in translation to written, just as the idiotic "fonetik spellen" idea in the article, but you get the drift.]
Spill chequer ping
Some of Roosevelt's proposed changes did become standard American spelling, for example changing "judgement" to "judgment", "colour" to "color", and "theatre" to "theater". But I think the proposal was not needed, and we don't need to change the way words are spelled today.
Exactamundo
This "push" is from the same liberal/socialist/fascists that can't read the exact, simple, eminently understandable plain English of our beloved Constitution, and must conjure up "emanations" and "penumbras" to support their twisted bastardization of a very simply written, completely understandable document.
In order to enable their historically proven failures of socialism/communism, they have to pervert the "chains of the Constitution" into something other than was intended- and which are perfectly understandable to any English speaking/reading/writing person.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
--Thomas Jefferson
Remove "personal responsibility" and replace it with blame of society- "He was abused as a child, so he's not responsible for killing all those people."
Foster the nanny state; make sure everyone is reliant on government for existence- Welfare and entitlements. Who's going to vote against giving themselves generous helpings of other's money and property??
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
--Benjamin Franklin
This "new spelling" is just another small, incremental change, like the story of boiling the frog, or of "the salami game". One little change here, one little change there, and pretty soon everything has changed and you're not living in the world you thought you were.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
--Thomas Jefferson
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
-- Daniel Webster
How often lately have you sat at a red light at an intersection, with absolutely no traffic in any direction, waiting for the light to cycle. Then driven two blocks, and sat at another red light, with no traffic. Congratulations! You've are being successfully indoctrinated into having the government direct your every action and desire. [And no, I'm not advocating anarchy and driving through red lights- it's an illustration, dummy!]
The incrementalism is happening every day, every hour, every minute, every second. And like the frog, it is very soon too late.
Own a gun? Get a "government permit" to carry it [CCW]. Own a car? Get a "government permit" to operate it. Want to say something? Get a "government permit" to speak or write... coming soon to a location near you.
Sorry for hijacking this thread. But the idea is relevant.
bah, I had a long reply, and lost it before I could post. Long story short, This is one of the reasons I use Spell to Write and Read by Wanda Sanseri (who was a student of *Romalda Spalding) to teach my own children.
*Mrs. Spalding wrote The Writing Road to Reading.
Splitting infinitives is something I try to never do.
Ukrainian still uses the "i" character. I think each of the Slavic languages which uses Cyrillic has a slightly different version of the alphabet (Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Belarussian, and Russian)...plus there are a lot of non-Slavic languages in the former Soviet Union which adopted Cyrillic as their alphabet, sometimes needing to represent sounds which aren't found in Russian.
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