> -eric "I like diacritical marks" sleator

Well, as part of my mad and impossible dream to simplify english I do away with them altogether. Not that I have anything aginst them. I think they look cool. The thing is they arn't reall part of English. They come from other language systmes when we adopt new words. A lot of spelling problems might be avoided if, when a new word from another language worms its way into the English langage, the spelling is altered to meet the supposed 'rules' they teach in elementary school.

It was so annoying to learn stuff like 'i' before 'e' except after 'c'. Then have the teacher show us one example after the other were the rule is broken. The same thing for 'when two vowels go walking the first one does the talking. The second one is silent.'

That was the origin of my desire to 'fix' the English language. I take all the words that don't fit the rules and 'fix' them. The new letters and stuff came later.

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