God damn it NO!
If you can't remember t o you must be mentally handicapped.
God damn it NO!
If you can't remember t o you must be mentally handicapped.
Just to be different~
Yeah, this seems like a good idea. I wholeheartedly approve.
(SPOILER)Yeah, this seems lyk a gud ideer. I howlhartedlee apruv.
I don't wish to live in a country of 3 year olds.
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Oh God, they actually want everyone to only speak n00b.
"Reality is that which,
when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away".
Philip K. Dick
I'll kill them. I'll kill them all. Aye weel keel dem awl. Awl ov dem. Aye weel sack deir blud. They want to make us spell like Ork and Oorook Hai :-(
and you british folk make fun of american spellings 8)
This has been going on in America for years. It's nothing new.Originally Posted by rubah
As kikimm said, every time I'm reminded about this crap, I want to break something. However, I know, in the United States, at least, this cannot be legally enforced. As far as I know, English is not the legally official language of the United States (that's just understood), nor is there any legally sanctioned spellings for words in the English language. If people want to somehow revolutionize the English language, they can go ahead and start using their own spelling and hope it catches on.
People have been speaking and writing English for hundreds of years, and it used to be even more complicated than it is now. There's no reason we can't continue normally.
Edit: If, by some incredibly unlikely possibility, this becomes legally enforced in the United States (as certain people have pushed for), I will leave the country without a second thought.
Spanish is the easiest language in the world. English is second hardest. Second only to Russian. Thank you for playing, though. You're not leaving empty-handed because we're going to cut your hands off.
The reason English is so hard is that there are too many exceptions to the rules. That being said, I'm happy with the way my language is and they better not go messing it up. I refuse to learn it all over again and I will pretend like it was never changed.
On a side note, is everyone stupid, or did they change the drop the E before adding ING rule that I learned in school? I've seen too many people spell "dying" as "dieing," "hiding" as "hideing," and... Well, I think two examples are enough. I'm leaning on people are stupid. We have no place in this world for stupid people. If we hadn't been fighting against natural selection for hundreds of years, these people would be dead, but now we're changing the language for them? Not if I can help it.
Harder then Arabic, Japanese and Chinese?Spanish is the easiest language in the world. English is second hardest. Second only to Russian. Thank you for playing, though. You're not leaving empty-handed because we're going to cut your hands off.
lol Spanish??? I'm portuguese and I don't need to have classes to know how to speak spanish so for me it's piece of cake!Spanish is the easiest language in the world. English is second hardest. Second only to Russian. Thank you for playing, though. You're not leaving empty-handed because we're going to cut your hands off.If you speak english during 10 years like I do you won't need to know the rules anymore because it'll come out naturally!
English is really easy when you speak a lot! Try to compare english with german!
German isn't hard :p
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
It's harder than english!
English is a hard language to learn if it wasn't your first, but changing it would just be dumb.
I like it how it is.
No it isn't.
The thing that is most unrealistic about the simplification of a language is the excessive amount of translation (yes, I'd consider it translation) that would be required for literature written before the overhaul. Reproducing the vast amount of text already written in modern English would be neither feasible nor practical. If, at some point, a simplified English language did become a standard, English as we know it would become even more impossible for students and hundreds of thousands of books would be beyond their understanding.
People pushing for simplified English are examining the problem from only one angle. It is possible that it would help students learn to read more easily, but what would they even have to read?
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