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This is supposed to be funny, damnit! ([info]gloria_mundi) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2006-07-06 11:48:00
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Grrrrr
This makes me angry in ways I can't even put into words.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060705/ap_on_re_us/simpl_wurdz
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[info]the_wanlorn
2006-07-06 05:55 pm UTC (link)
What the fuck is wrong with people?

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[info]ipomoea
2006-07-06 05:56 pm UTC (link)
On the plus side, the writer did a good job showing how incredibly stupid it looks.

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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2006-07-06 06:02 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2006-07-06 06:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dandywolves, 2006-07-06 06:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-07-06 07:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]no_touching, 2006-07-07 07:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2006-07-07 01:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]no_touching, 2006-07-07 01:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2006-07-07 01:53 pm UTC

[info]eilisliana
2006-07-06 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Argh. I better not say anymore.

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[info]phosfate
2006-07-06 06:04 pm UTC (link)
I wonder if it would even make any difference. Is a person's difficulty with spelling the fault of the words?

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(no subject) - [info]littlebitca, 2006-07-06 06:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sheep, 2006-07-06 06:18 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sheep, 2006-07-06 06:18 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2006-07-07 04:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]princessdot, 2006-07-06 09:43 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2006-07-07 04:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]princessdot, 2006-07-08 12:06 am UTC

[info]ladybirdsleeps
2006-07-06 06:12 pm UTC (link)
Eh, don't take it so seriously. People have been pushing for spelling reform for centuries and it's never caught on.

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[info]sarajayechan
2006-07-06 06:15 pm UTC (link)
That's just retarded. --;

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[info]suziecroft
2006-07-06 06:18 pm UTC (link)
Is it bad that that article kept giving me flashbacks to Flowers for Algernon?

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(no subject) - [info]wankismyfandom, 2006-07-06 07:32 pm UTC
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[info]miharu
2006-07-06 06:24 pm UTC (link)
Holy fuck, that made my eyes cross involuntarily more times than I could count.

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[info]slackerbitch
2006-07-06 06:28 pm UTC (link)
Am I still the last person on earth who resists "nite" and "thru" with all of her being!? No wonder other countries think Americans are dumb.

Also, the page that pulls up for me also has an advertisement for Larry King Live featuring an interview with President and Laura Bush. The jokes write themselves, don't they?

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(no subject) - [info]izzygal, 2006-07-06 06:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2006-07-06 07:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]coreopsis, 2006-07-06 08:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ealusaid, 2006-07-11 03:10 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-07-06 07:00 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]antigone, 2006-07-06 09:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]amxjm, 2006-07-07 03:48 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2006-07-06 07:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]princessdot, 2006-07-06 09:45 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]princessdot, 2006-07-06 10:05 pm UTC

[info]entrenous88
2006-07-06 06:32 pm UTC (link)
God, that hurt my head so much. *whimpers*

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[info]jetamors
2006-07-06 06:36 pm UTC (link)
I wonder how they'd deal with Mary/merry/marry and different accents.

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(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-07-06 07:09 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]keri, 2006-07-06 08:35 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2006-07-06 07:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]keri, 2006-07-06 08:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2006-07-06 08:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]keri, 2006-07-06 09:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2006-07-06 09:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]luthe, 2006-07-07 02:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2006-07-07 05:23 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]livii, 2006-07-06 09:38 pm UTC
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[info]smo
2006-07-06 07:04 pm UTC (link)
Ow, my brain.

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[info]puffkrispy
2006-07-06 07:18 pm UTC (link)
Interesting (or perhaps not so interesting ... you decide) fact: Noah Webster was fighting the same fight in the 18th century. He was the one primarily responsible for Americanizing British spellings, like dropping the "u" from "colour," and so on. His reason, however, was to make the English language more American, since it was a new country and wanted its own identity away from Britain. I think he also proposed the dropping of "a" from words like "head" and "dead."

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(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2006-07-06 07:48 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]puffkrispy, 2006-07-06 08:48 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]misakichi, 2006-07-06 10:28 pm UTC
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[info]beccastareyes
2006-07-06 07:18 pm UTC (link)
Here's my question. Who decides what's phonetic? I mean, one of my parents pronounces garage /ga-RAJ/ and the other pronounces it to rhyme with carriage (/GER-ej/). Will Boston news papers have to drop r's? Should aunt be spelled like ant? Can American English speakers here the difference between the voiced and unvoiced 'th' sound, or the s in sleep versus the s in beds (one is more of a /z/). So, who's right? At this point, I don't think English is spoken consistently, let alone spelled consistently.

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(no subject) - [info]emiweebee, 2006-07-06 07:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2006-07-06 07:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ravenscanary, 2006-07-06 08:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]emiweebee, 2006-07-06 11:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-07-06 07:33 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]keri, 2006-07-06 08:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-07-06 08:51 pm UTC
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[info]emiweebee
2006-07-06 07:18 pm UTC (link)
Then we run into the issue of dialects. Which is correct, roof or ruf?

Also, crappy spelling getting official recognition always makes me feel like pimping fysche, my personal bugaboo. She's published by a vanity press but has been heralded by a couple decent people as imaginative and boundary-pushing. I call her a hack. :D

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sharonapple
2006-07-06 07:23 pm UTC (link)
GIP.

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[info]squeakthemouse
2006-07-06 07:28 pm UTC (link)
The "phonetic spellings" made me feel like I was reading a comment on [info]ohnotheydidnt.

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(no subject) - [info]apoplexia, 2006-07-06 08:07 pm UTC

[info]sgtgeorgecarter
2006-07-06 07:33 pm UTC (link)
no... just no

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[info]khym_chanur
2006-07-06 07:34 pm UTC (link)
Mark twain had a great parody of simplified spelling:

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

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(no subject) - [info]kijikun, 2006-07-06 07:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-07-06 07:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2006-07-06 07:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mindset, 2006-07-06 08:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]your_face, 2006-07-06 10:27 pm UTC
"Mucus" will be "LMNOucus".
[info]phosfate
2006-07-06 07:41 pm UTC (link)
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75rdecabet.phtml

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[info]judyhazeleyes
2006-07-06 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Wow. For something that's aiming to simplify the language, that phonetic spelling sure was impossible to read. I need to go and forcibly uncross my eyes now, thanks.

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(no subject) - [info]geekmagirl, 2006-07-06 08:05 pm UTC
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[info]dunc
2006-07-06 08:13 pm UTC (link)
Christ. That article makes me proud to be an elitist bitch.

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[info]keri
2006-07-06 08:51 pm UTC (link)
ZOMPIST.COM has this really awesome article I've been referring to for about five or six years now regarding English spelling. (It has some really good linguistic articles in general, including one about "writing English like Chinese" which is enlightening, but actually a bit off because Chinese doesn't actually use pictures for words like is assumed, according to Alpha Beta - How Our Alphabet Shaped the Western World by John Man)

Hou tu pranounse Inglish "The purpose of this page is to describe those rules-- to explain the system behind English spelling, the rules that tell you how to pronounce a written word correctly over 85% of the time."

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[info]sashenka
2006-07-06 08:55 pm UTC (link)
Oh, God, it's like trying to read a teenager's LJ! Back, demon! *holds up cross*

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[info]ironymaiden
2006-07-06 09:25 pm UTC (link)
*reads article, is forced to put pens into eyes*

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