Al Quaeda vs Complexities of the English Language
How about simplified speling [sic] for the English Language.
http://www.spellingsociety.org/journ...flets/ses2.php
Apparently we each waste one year of our educational lives learning complex English spelling.
[Mind you that text in the link is a bit of hard going at first]
Let's say 1900 reform was adopted that respelt all English words phonentically using the 40 phonemes used in the language consistently and also we introduced a new alphabet with a one to one correspondence to the phonemes.
(Currently there are 500 representations of the phonemes).
Other countries have done this so it is not that extreme.
Probly no Shakespeare in schools then!
Just realised that if learning spelling wastes one year of your life...
That is 1/80th of every English speaking person - lets say that everyone lives to 80.
So if there are 500 million English speaking people that is 500 million years lost or 6 million lifetimes.
So let's get the death tallies of Al Quaeda in perspective.
http://www.spellingsociety.org/journ...flets/ses2.php
Apparently we each waste one year of our educational lives learning complex English spelling.
[Mind you that text in the link is a bit of hard going at first]
Let's say 1900 reform was adopted that respelt all English words phonentically using the 40 phonemes used in the language consistently and also we introduced a new alphabet with a one to one correspondence to the phonemes.
(Currently there are 500 representations of the phonemes).
Other countries have done this so it is not that extreme.
Probly no Shakespeare in schools then!
Just realised that if learning spelling wastes one year of your life...
That is 1/80th of every English speaking person - lets say that everyone lives to 80.
So if there are 500 million English speaking people that is 500 million years lost or 6 million lifetimes.
So let's get the death tallies of Al Quaeda in perspective.
posted by gruad @ 11:11 pm
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