A proposal for
simplifying the spelling of English and its associated idiosyncrasies.
A large amount of typing errors are
caused by 3 reasons:
1. Carelessness
2. Spelling differences across countries (e.g. color/colour)
3. Nonnative English speakers trying to cope with
illogical spelling rules
I now
strongly suggest we should try to simplify the language.
To try and do this in one attempt could be disastrous, so
I think we should phase it in over a 5 year period.
My suggestions are as follows, and I hope you will agree.
In the first
year, "s" will be used instead of the soft
"c". Sertainly, sivil servants will
reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard "c"
will be replased with "k". Not only will
this klear up konfusion, but keyboards kan have one less
letter.
There will
be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the
troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f".
This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per
sent shorter.
In the third
year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated
changes are possible. We will enkourage the removal
of double letters, which have always been a deterent to
akurate speling.
Also, al wil
agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the
languag is disgraful, and they would go.
By the forth
year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" by "z" and "w" by
"v".
During ze
fifz year ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from
vords kontaining "ou", so Soup will then be
known as Sup and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to
ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis
fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trobls or difikultis and evrivum vil
find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil
finali kum tru.
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