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 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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