Originally posted by vawendy:
Originally posted by LevT:
Originally posted by vawendy:
Btw -- thanks for the comments. I wasn't complaining about the 3s. (I did during voting, so I'm over it now. :P ) When there are that many, it's not really an outlier, so there's some interesting information to be had. |
Could it be that a few grammar nazis did not like two S's in the word Assylum? ;) |
That's it!! But you do know that forgetting how to spell is the first sign of insanity. |
Two famous authors address your point ... :-)
Originally posted by Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling":
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g-j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. |
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