On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 21:32 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:07:25 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 12:48 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > We should have gone all the way to simplified spelling. > > > > > > Surely you've seen that internet "joke" about simplified spelling, where > > > the silent e gets dropped, and y's that sound like an i get replaced by > > > an i, and the k sound of c is replaced by k, etc? Soon, the sample > > > paragraph is pretty much unintelligible. Somewhat amusing. Sorry I don't > > > have a link. > > I found three versions. Here is my favorite: > > http://www.speedybar.ch/witze/jokes2000/spelling.html
Why replace "th" with "z"? And "c" will still be needed for "ch" (as in "church", not the k in school/skool). Double vowels and silent e's will still be needed to indicate "longness". -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA Why won't GWB have the US invade the DPRK? Because the People's Army has 11-15,000 artillery pieces within range of Seoul... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
