Simplified spelling, i know i cant spell too good, but this is ridiculous.

[Ice-man]

Im not for this one bit, its weird...


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.

Masha Bell, a member of the society and author of Understanding English Spelling, believes that reform of the spelling of the English language could help children learn to read and make life easier for some adults too.

Prof Vivian Cook, a linguist, expert in second language learning and author of Accommodating Brocolli in the Cemetery, believes changing spellings would be unnecessary, expensive and could harm children's ability to read.
We pitched the two, spelling reformer and spelling traditionalist, into a battle to persuade the other. Here they debate the merits of spelling systems, in the form of short e-mails.
Some of Ms Bell's entries are partly-written in simplified spelling.





Simplified spelling glossary ridiculous



Here are a selection of reformed spellings as envisaged by the Simplified Spelling Society.


Addicted - adicted
Anyone - ennywun
Are - ar
Beautiful - butiful
Becoming - becumming
Benefit - bennefit
Couple - cupl
Difference - difrence
Have - hav
Health - helth
Learn - lern
Low - lo
Memory - memmory
Money - munny
More - mor
Most - moast
One - wun
Only - onely
People - peeple
Phonic - phonnic
Poor - por
Single - singl
Simple - simpl
Slow - slo
Still - stil
Therefore - therefor
To - tu
Very - verry
Were - wer

Worse - wors
You - u
Young - yung
Your - yor

 

[Erzengel]

This is stoopid.

 

[Badger]

Peeple ar verry stoopid.

 

[Logan's Runt]

Peeple ar verry stoopid.

I no, rite?

 

[JP]

Wel, the English langwige is the hardess langwige to lern.

 

[arachnid-guy]

Rite, ppl cant spel fr sht.

 

[TNC9852002]

-TNC

 

[unstoppable]

where's the challenge in that

 

[Immortalfire]

Dumb.

 

[R_3]

this idea is terrible...and how is turning Memory into "memmory" and Most into "moast" making it more simple? They're getting longer. Sad.

 

[Erzengel]

This reminds me of how they wanted to incorporate ebonics into the school system in California. LOL

 

[November Rain]

The idea of spelling is quite ridiculous because it's all about getting a message across.

Putting things in the right context is probably more appropriate in this day to age.

The only problem with this is that someone with an inability to spell probably is more likely to have the content of their work questioned more than someone who has no troubles with spelling.

 

[Spider-Fan]

This is so idiotic, it is not even funny. Why reward people who can't spell?

Spelling doesn't matter to me much, but to make a society for bad spelling is completely moronic.

 

[Honey Vibe]

Spelling changes are based on political/cultural logic; it's never done for simplification's sake.

For example, the american spelling of words (ie, color for colour -- yes folks, there was a time when "color" looked as dumb as "moast" up there) was the beginning of Americana. It was not done to simplify spelling per se, but rather to distinguish a former colony as its own unique culture. Another good example is the communist drive for "simplied Chinese" throughout the 1900s, another "reform" to symbolize cultural progress.

Good luck to them, but they need cultural fire to facilitate this cause.

 

[November Rain]

color still looks dumb to me...

 

[Mr. Credible]

there are a few words that could do with a respelling, but those examples above are ridiculous.

 

[Honey Vibe]

Here are a selection of reformed spellings as envisaged by the Simplified Spelling Society.


Addicted - adicted
Anyone - ennywun < you're pronouncing it wrong; "annywun"
Are - ar
Beautiful - butiful "beau" is borrowed latin. Why not beautyfull? Or even beautiful? Oh, wait....
Becoming - becumming
Benefit - bennefit Why add an N here, but take away a D in "addicted"?
Couple - cupl k.
Difference - difrence or, diferens?
Have - hav
Health - helth
Learn - lern nice
Low - lo that's already a word. You can't spell "trussed" like "trust" just because it's simpler. You're just muddling things up in other ways.
Memory - memmory my favorite
Money - munny where're the kingdom hearts fans?
More - mor moar?
Most - moast Adding the "a" is redundant. How about something functional like "moste", or just leaving it alone?
One - wun
Only - onely
People - peeple sure
Phonic - phonnic fonic?
Poor - por k
Single - singl why not take the E off "peeple" too? "seengl"?

 

[The Evolutionist]

Some of those actually look kinda close to their International Phonetic Alphabet equivalents, but the reason we don't use IPA in every day language is because you need the letters in the word to determine how to pronounce it.

 

[Mr. Credible]

i think you can thank all the impatient internet nerds who can't take the time to write "hey, that's funny!" so they put "lol" or "rofl"... and all the idiot text message senders who write things like "k thx l8r" and abbreviate the word people with "ppl", etc...

congrats, guys.

 

[redmarvel]

there are a few words that could do with a respelling, but those examples above are ridiculous.

Agreed.

I would change the spelling of the following:

debt -> det
colonel -> kernol
read -> reed (I'm reeding the book)
read -> red (I have red the book)
blood -> blud

 

[The Evolutionist]

read -> reed (I'm reeding the book)
read -> red (I have red the book)

I wouldn't really have a problem with any of the ones you said but these, because you're simply replacing one homonym set with two, which would ultimately be more confusing.

 

[redmarvel]

I wouldn't really have a problem with any of the ones you said but these, because you're simply replacing one homonym set with two, which would ultimately be more confusing.

But to read the book and to have read the book are not pronounced the same... Perhaps Rede and Redd ...

There are many words that are spelt the same but have different meanings depending on their context... I just think that a word should be spelt the way it is pronounced and not have multiple different spellings.

Which Witch

 

[The Evolutionist]

But to read the book and to have read the book are not pronounced the same... Perhaps Rede and Redd ...

There are many words that are spelt the same but have different meanings depending on their context... I just think that a word should be spelt the way it is pronounced and not have multiple different spellings.

Which Witch

****, I wasn't thinking when I said homonym, and now I can't think of the word I was really looking for, and yeah, those would work better.

I agree with you on that, but your original solutions just made the problem worse.

 

[redmarvel]

Palindrom (?sp?)

 

[Jack Rabbit]

Why is the Simplified Spelling Society spelled correctly, then?

Simplifid Spln Sositi?

Smplfied Spl Socti?

Props for the KH reference, Honey Vibe. I was thinking the same thing.