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1 posted on 01/30/2014 8:26:09 PM PST by varmintman
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Uh. No.


2 posted on 01/30/2014 8:30:35 PM PST by dinoparty
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If English is to be the international language of business and commerce...

It already is.

3 posted on 01/30/2014 8:30:48 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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Worse than the spelling is that English has too many phonemes and homonyms. The closest you can get to a simpler sounding/spelled language is Spanish or Latin.


4 posted on 01/30/2014 8:32:41 PM PST by Procyon (Decentralize, degovernmentalize, deregulate, demonopolize, decredentialize, disentitle.)
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And after generations are taught the simplified spelling will they be able to read older books or will they be lost to the general culture or treated as mere quaint poems and prose like Chaucer’s works?


5 posted on 01/30/2014 8:35:56 PM PST by Procyon (Decentralize, degovernmentalize, deregulate, demonopolize, decredentialize, disentitle.)
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I don’t get it. Why would we need letters for sounds that don’t exist in English (Spanish N~, trilling R, etc.)? None of the major languages have separate letters for trilling Rs and English-style Rs.


6 posted on 01/30/2014 8:37:36 PM PST by dangus
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I have actually thought about this situation.

However, I prefer devising new characters. I hate those extra symbols. Think of a keyboard. You might as well make new characters as add keys for all the different “accents” on extant letters.

We have a wonderful flexible language, but the “diversity” that ultimately molded it is also what causes all the confusion. Far too many influences that contradict each other.


7 posted on 01/30/2014 8:39:51 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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I’m with you! Get rid of ‘ph’ spelling for ‘f’ sounds! For that matter, why is there a ‘ck’ spelling when the sound is pure ‘k’.

We should modernize the language!


10 posted on 01/30/2014 8:42:40 PM PST by teppe (... for my God ... for my Family ... for my Country ....)
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No ə?


11 posted on 01/30/2014 8:43:23 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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If English is to be the international language of business and commerce

It pretty much is already

12 posted on 01/30/2014 8:43:49 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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maybee thay need to spel thingz fonticalli. due yung peepol nott due that alredi wen thay teckst on thayr i-fonez? (/sarc)


15 posted on 01/30/2014 8:45:43 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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18 posted on 01/30/2014 8:51:34 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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The Decabet

http://vimeo.com/66638573


22 posted on 01/30/2014 8:55:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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sorry, zot the idea.


23 posted on 01/30/2014 8:59:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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"The whole world knows that English spelling is a sick joke."

Another liberal twit, showing his utter disdain and hatred for one of the key foundation blocks of western culture.

Well, Mr. Fabrique. I think you're a sick joke. How do you like that?

24 posted on 01/30/2014 9:05:09 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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Not this again. In the 70s some ‘smart guy’ was pushing his system


29 posted on 01/30/2014 9:59:22 PM PST by Nifster
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Some languages work with less letters. Less letters to learn. Less letters to remember. Less letters to cause spelling mistrakes. Let’s drop the letter “O”. Will improve our English (and immensely improve our politics).


33 posted on 01/30/2014 10:07:05 PM PST by faithhopecharity (C)
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English is NOT broken. It does NOT need fixing. If the Euros want to be cool, then do Ebonics to be with it and hip. (sarcasm off)


39 posted on 01/30/2014 10:47:59 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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>>It should be utterly unambiguous and 100% phonetic. That means that if you hear a word spoken you know how to spell it and, if you see a word written, you know how to pronounce it other than for the question of which syllable if any is stressed.

And when dialects are added in... this “new” system self-destructs (think of listening to some inbred Boston native pronounce “park the car” as /pahk da cah/ . Standard orthography was put in place precisely to avoid all the duplicate spellings generated by dialects.


45 posted on 01/31/2014 1:19:01 AM PST by vikingd00d (nulla seruitus turpior est quam uoluntaria -- Seneca)
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Would you rather learn 40,000 unique Chinese characters? I’ll keep my English just the way it is.


47 posted on 01/31/2014 3:17:53 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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Or people can just learn English. Oh, wait, that requires work.


48 posted on 01/31/2014 3:28:35 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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