Crap Throwing Monkey Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/06/1631211.shtml 719272[/snapback] But we don't make simple spelling mistakes here. We only make egregiously complex spelling mistakes...
Fezmid Posted July 6, 2006 Author Posted July 6, 2006 But we don't make simple spelling mistakes here. We only make egregiously complex spelling mistakes... 719278[/snapback] With the new system, they won't be mistakes anymore!
Arkady Renko Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 They do have a valid point. I feel sorry for anyone trying to learn English spellings when they are native speakers of another language. I don't think Italians or Spaniards have spelling bees, after all. But... with a simplified spelling system, there would be less separation between me and other Internet posters. It would be hard to find something else to hang my hat on.
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 With the new system, they won't be mistakes anymore! 719297[/snapback] Build a foolproof language, and I guarantee you a fool will pop up here and find a new and different way to completely butcher it.
/dev/null Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 With the new system, they won't be mistakes anymore! 719297[/snapback] mistakes hurt self esteem so they've been replaced by alternate answers
Taro T Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 Build a foolproof language, and I guarantee you a fool will pop up here and find a new and different way to completely butcher it. 719339[/snapback] You can't build anything that's foolPROOF. Foolresistant is possible, but a determined fool will defeat the best of engineering/design in almost all cases.
Puhonix Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 I don't think Italians or Spaniards have spelling bees, after all. 719304[/snapback] Of course not. They're called Spelling Abejas.
nick in* england Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgrasful, and they should go away. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!
stuckincincy Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! 719577[/snapback] Ah, hr koms th frth rike!
R. Rich Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 Awww, now what will the holier than thou world class spellers do w/ their spare time? This stinks.
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 Awww, now what will the holier than thou world class spellers do w/ their spare time? This stinks. 719655[/snapback] There's still grammer for people to !@#$ up...
R. Rich Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 There's still grammer for people to !@#$ up... 719678[/snapback] I was confident that my question would be answered..... by you.
ricojes Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 Great news!!! Their is hope for all of us...................
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 I was confident that my question would be answered..... by you. 719679[/snapback] I was pretty sure you were asking me specifically. I'm also surprised no one jumped all over my misspelling of "grammar" yet.
Rubes Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 I was pretty sure you were asking me specifically. I'm also surprised no one jumped all over my misspelling of "grammar" yet. 719692[/snapback] Dammit...I was just about to.
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