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Spelling "reforms" in English.
They always look really,
really stupid, and are just flat-out uneccessary.
Seriously:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundSpel (on my Ipod (I found it!), can't hyperlink)
Look at the examples section. That is some of the most retarded shit I've ever seen. It looks like the sloppy spelling of a first-grader.
Never mind that ironically, it's
harder to read than normal English orthography.
Comments
Anyway, if you want to reform spelling, this is what you should be REALLY using:
is that
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/belvar.htm
Um... yes.
The fact that it's by Mark Twain should have given it away.
http://www.englishspellingsociety.org/journals/j31/satires.php
I imagine non native speakers feel differently.
Yeah, well their languages have all that wierd grammar shit! So it's even!
/tongue-in-cheek
Not counting the orthpgraphy, English has some rather simple grammar rules.
Incredibly light verb conjugation (before you bring up stuff like "sing/sang/sung", that's a feature of Germanic Languages in general) Use of word order to indicate grammatical case. Many plurals are formed the same way: adding an "s", when German, to name an example, has over 10 different ways of forming plurals.
In Spanish, on the other hand, a verb can be said over 2000 different ways.
Enough said.
Chagen: English sucks. Get over it.
The rules are simple, but nothing follows them.
CA: Sorry, but English is the greatest language to ever exist.
The fucking hypocrisy.
Also, Spanish is a shit language, Italian and French are way better.
Not sure if serious.