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    Default We don't need no educashun!

    I'm as edumacated as the next man but this is disgraceful.

    They've been campaigning for a century to make the spelling of the English language easier and recently picketed a spelling bee in the US to make their point. Welcome to the Simplified Spelling Society.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6250184.stm

    Hey, good idea. The kids can spell anyway they like, no more need to learn and spell English. Talk about dumbing down. This will do nothing towards educating children properly.
    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by article
    MB: If u hav a por memmory yor chances of becumming a good speller ar lo. But wors stil, yor chances of lerning to read ar not good either, because of phonnic nonsens like "cow-crow, dream-dreamt, friend-fiend" and hundreds mor like them.
    Ouch, that made me wince. I thought I was looking at a gamefaqs post, before I realized it was intentional.

    Considering the changes from, say, Shakespeare's era, we've already dumbed it down. Now they want to make it worse?

    Actually, if they want writing to be easier, let them just write in SMS format.

    I said it in another thread: English is fine as it is. Let it stay that way.
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    Stupid idea.
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    Default Re: We don't need no educashun!

    i kant beleef u gies r so klosd minded abowt this

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    I lost more than a few brain cells reading that article. Ugh.

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    It isn't a bad idea. It's just a stupid idea.

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    Bah!
    I'm not even a native speaker but that spelling is ridiculous.


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    The discussion was silly to read and so I stopped reading it very quickly. They might be linguists, but they obviously respond in ways that I would quickly disregard (at least enough that I saw to turn me off from seriously reading). Language usually isn't promoting human use of hard logic anyway.

    Though some good points were made as I quickly skimmed through. The English spelling is indeed messed up to those who have no sense of the language at all. Perhaps they should just be exposed to the basic latin alphabet -- which they in most countries know already -- and TV shows -- hearing of the language wherever possible.

    I think: if one knows the relevant alphabet and one knows how to understand English when hearing it (and perhaps speaking it), one would have little trouble understanding its spelling (if put together). But I am speaking from personal experience here. My exposure to English very early made me learn it very easily throughout time. It also depends on the mental capabilities and the age of the learner.

    Young kids -- who have no significant mental problems and are generally healthy -- should not have much trouble in learning in the first place. The sooner you have them learn (properly) the better.
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    Wow, what a bunch of complete fools. I'm disgusted and sickened.

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    So, no dark sarcasm in the backroom? All in all, she's just another a prick in the fall!

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    There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.

    “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”

    To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

    "The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."

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