Wot aboot in Caenada a?
Some words can be changed, such as those cited, but a huge change can never occur because of regional differences in pronunciation especially involving vowel sounds in many words, e.g., ice, check, cash.
Will this make it any easier for the typical high school graduate of today to read his/her diploma?
Math would be alot easier if everything equaled seven.
Publik ejakashun ping.
A crackers form of Ebonics?
I read a sample of this new spelling on Yahoo and it made both my eyes and head hurt.
The dumbing down and brainwashing of America's youth continues.....
What a stupid idea. Aside from the fact that this has been proposed (and failed) dozens of times in history, the "simple spellers" are missing the big picture here. The way a word is spelled is the key to unlocking it's meaning. It's how we can decode a new word in many cases.
Spelling itself is no particular help in reading since readers see the material in chunks. Good readers don't read every letter.
You rang?
"The dumbing down continues".
They've been trying to do this for a long time...many, many spelling reformers have popped up...too much inertia, too much used to seeing a word spelled such and such away, and it won't happen. Spelling's very conservative
Of course, expect to see some text messaging spelling get adopted, because that is something that really gets used and comes from the ground up.
Directors at Daimler-Benz and Chrysler have announced an agreement to adopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Directors at Chrysler conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan. In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c."
Also the hard "c" will be replaced with "k." Not only will this klear up konfusion, but komputers kan have 1 less letter. There will be a growing kompany enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f." This will make words like "fotograf" 20 persent shorter.
In the third year, Daimler-Khrysler akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.
Daimler-Khrysler will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always been a determent to akkurate spelling. Also, all will agree that the horrible mess of silent "e's" in the language is disgrakeful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, people will be resepetive to steps such as replaking "th" with "z" and "w" by "v".
During ze fifz year, ze unekessary "o" kan be dropped from vords kontaining "ou", and similiar khanges vuld of kors be applied to all ozer kombinations of letters.
After zis fifz year, ve vill hav a really sensible vriten style. Zere vill be no more trubls or diffikultis and employee's vill find it easy to komunikat viz each ozer.
Ov kourse all suppliers vill be expekted to svitsh to zis for all business kommuniktion via Daimler-Khrysler.
Ze dream vill finally kome true.
Bad analogy. The metric system isn't easier. See Freedom 2 Measure.
You'd think this man would have something better to do with his time...
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A timly artical! I have long ben intrestid in speling reform, as words ar very importent to me and making them understandible to everone shood bee given hi priorty.
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.
anybody talk about leet speak? That's fun.