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10th July 2007, 1:24pm
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#16 | | Athiest Otter
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| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
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10th July 2007, 1:27pm
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#17 | | Shaming the Devil
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Avenue Q
Posts: 8,375
| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
I am aware of the hypocrisy of my posts in this threads when the Spanish in my sig is not even punctuated. I'm working on it.
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10th July 2007, 2:49pm
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#18 | | MacGuyver
Join Date: Aug 2005
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| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
I thought this lot had been banging on about it for years now?
Slow news day in BBC land?
Also, MB's consistent use of “onely”, which I always read as “one-li” makes reading the arguments a bind.
If you're going to make spelling easier, at least come up with spellings which are easier.
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10th July 2007, 6:26pm
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#19 | | Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Glasgow, West End
Posts: 1,694
| Should we simplify spelling?
Welcome to the Simplified Spelling Society... SIMPLIFIED GLOSSARY 
Learn - lern
Slow - slo
Beautiful - butiful
Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6250184.stm
"Lern tu spell!" Are you for or against simplified spelling?
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10th July 2007, 7:04pm
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#20 | | I'm A Lumberjack
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 352
| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
What a stupid idea. Surely more of an effort should be made to improve the standard of english in schools rather than just dumb it down. | |
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10th July 2007, 7:06pm
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#21 | | Better not to err
Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Glesgae
Posts: 28,357
| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
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Originally Posted by LesMTS  Of course language changes and I would put up no great resistance to that.
You can't force it, though, it happens slowly and naturally, and you certainly can't change every word to a phonetic spelling based on the dialect of Edinburgh. | Fixxxed | 
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11th July 2007, 4:45pm
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#22 | | Super Discunt
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,765
| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
After reading that article i think i've finally found an OED acceptable definition for fucktard. | |
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11th July 2007, 4:58pm
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#23 | | G.I.Metal
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kandahar,o yea!
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| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
Haven't the majority of people being doing okay with the way it is up until now?
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11th July 2007, 4:58pm
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#24 | | Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Brigton
Posts: 591
| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
Looking at the glossary of suggested changes it seem a lot of them arent that far off txt spk, It just looks horrible. | |
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11th July 2007, 8:00pm
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#25 | | Caissa's DeathAngel
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Beneath a blade
Posts: 16,992
| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
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Originally Posted by nevali I thought this lot had been banging on about it for years now? | Aye, every now and again you get a group like this. Think there were a couple of biggies in the 60s or 70s? Not sure but there might even have been a political party with this as a policy? Can't remember, can't be arsed checking.
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11th July 2007, 8:57pm
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#26 | | Pos-Reprehensible
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: SelfLoathian.
Posts: 2,968
| Re: Group Campaigns to have English Spelling Simplified
I do hope they have an alternative spelling for "useless ignoramus", it'll be needed when it's time to write up their obituaries.
In any case, if you really hate spelling things out that much, why not just go one further and start speaking in binary? Damn under-achievers. | |
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