A Call For Simpler Spelling

AP ^ | 7/6/06 | Staff

[Still Thinking]

Actually, it is. It is just difficult for us because we have always used the American/English system, but SI units make a lot more sense when one is converting from one unit to another.

But you do a lot more with a system of units than unit conversions, and everything else is easier in English. And I think many people can, in fact, do whatever conversions they have to do in their head, even in English.

I say this as someone who has been immersed in and completely comfortable with both systems.

[kittymyrib]

We have changed English drastically since the days of Chaucer and the King James Bible. A computer sould be able to clean up the archaic spellings we still have, and it would be another improvement for literacy. There is no way that "way" and "weigh" should sound alike, not to mention "wood" and "would." These relics from the dark ages need to be excised from modern English.

[Jille]

anybody talk about leet speak? That's fun.

[LongElegantLegs]

Stop damaging my self esteem!!

[toddlintown]

ebonics, part II.