7 Jan
2002
7 Jan
'02
12:44 a.m.
On Jan 4, 19:34, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner
wrote:
> A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
> by Mark Twain
It is wonderful, although it's not by Mark Twain,
but by M.J. Shields in a
letter to The Economist. It was in response to George Bernard Shaw's
suggestions to reform the English alphabet by adding 14 letters to
eliminate spelling anomalies. Another wonder in the same vein is to be
found at http://www.d.kth.se/~d92-abj/humor/spelling_reform.html. It
concludes:
Kontinuing cis proses, ier after ier, we would
eventuali hav a reali
sensibl writen langug. By 1975, wi ventyur tu sei, cer wud bi no mor uv ces
teribli trublsum difikultis, wic no tu leters usd to indikeit ce seim nois,
and laikwais no tui noises riten wic ce seim leter. Even Mr. Yaw, wi beliv,
wud be hapi in ce nog cat his drims fainali keim tru.
:))
Jep. What I like most is that similar aproaches are available to German,
eliminateing most letters ... keep in mind that German has already a mostly
phonetic spelling ... And the replacements are likewise selected.
:)
Gruss
H.
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