
A large amount of typing errors are caused by 3
reasons:
1. Carelessness
2. Spelling differences across countries (e.g.
color/colour)
3. Nonnative English speakers trying to cope with
illogical
spelling rules
I now strongly suggest we should try to simplify
the language.
To try and do this in one attempt could be
disastrous, so I
think we should phase it in over a 5 year period.
My
suggestions are as follows, and I hope you will
agree.
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the
soft "c".
Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news
with joy.
Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not
only will
this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have
one less
letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the
sekond year,
when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f".
This will
make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new
spelling kan
be expekted to reach the stage where more
komplikated changes
are possible. We will enkourage the removal of
double letters,
which have always been a deterent to akurate
speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s
in the
languag is disgraful, and they would go.
By the forth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps
such as
replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".
During ze fifz year ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd
from vords
kontaining "ou" , so Soup will then be known as Sup
and
similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of
leters.
After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl
riten styl. Zer
vil be no mor trobls or difikultis and evrivum vil
find it ezi
tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
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