> 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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