Simplified English?

[Captain Maxx Power]

Call me crazy, but seeing "tu b or nut tu b, dat is th kueston" on a page would probably cause my bladder to rupture.

[Anaisa]

I think it's a ridiculous idea. It's bad enough that they waste time teaching children at school that silly kiddy alphabet. Just teach them the proper one to begin with. Curly k?! Pathetic.

[Shoden]

I struggled enough learning how to speak and spell and write in the first place, geez this is going to be hell, I will rip the balls off the guy to confirms and allows it.

[Rye]

How about parents, you know, read with their kids instead of watching TV? We're losing to countries like Cuba with an over 99% literacy rate.

Seriously. Kids need to freaking read.

[vorpal blade]

After a few generations, the Newwrite, as I shall call it, will be a easy to read (for those who grew up on it) as Nowwrite (as I shall call this) is to us. Actually, it will be easier. And by dumbing down the nation, the general population gets relatively smarter. That is to say, fewer people will be considered dumb.

That's no a good thing. If we switch to Newwrite, it will become quite difficult for Americans to read things written in England, Australia, Canada, and anywhere else where Nowwrite is used. We would have to translate British books to American. "I translate books from English to American." Sounds dumb. And frankly, I don't see the big deal about armour, favourite, colour, theatre, centre, etc. In fact, I, like Reine, prefer the English spelling.

And what right do we have to complain? Sure we've got words with complicated spellings, but what about other languages? German, Spanish, French... spelling is pretty easy. But what about Japanese? Sure, pronunciation is easy, and it's quite easy to write, but they have THREE systems of writing: hiragana, katana (the last two are very easy to read and write) and kanji. Oh, kanji! You hurt my brain! So many different pronunciations for each kanji, and so many kanji... But are the Japanese trying to get rid of that? Not to my knowledge (though in the 60s, I believe, the Japanese government did simplify a few kanji). And what about the Chinese? They only have kanji. They have to memorize thousands of kanji, many of which are very complicated. So who are we to demand Newwrite?

[Monster Hunt]

I'd say bad idea- It's not right and it's too late: even you may not be too good at spelling, you might of caught on some simple spelling rules (eg: i before e, except after c) so even when you're spelling simple words, you could get them wrong and just get more confused.

[Alive-Cat]

I think that this is PREPOSTEROUS. In fact, I think words should be LONGER. There should be letters added on to every word, silent letters. Yes.

[Raven Nox]

But what about Japanese? Sure, pronunciation is easy, and it's quite easy to write, but they have THREE systems of writing: hiragana, katana (the last two are very easy to read and write) and kanji. Oh, kanji! You hurt my brain! So many different pronunciations for each kanji, and so many kanji... But are the Japanese trying to get rid of that? Not to my knowledge (though in the 60s, I believe, the Japanese government did simplify a few kanji). And what about the Chinese? They only have kanji. They have to memorize thousands of kanji, many of which are very complicated. So who are we to demand Newwrite?

I was kind've thinking of that as well. Japanese has like 80 characters of hiragana, double that when you add katakana, and then it uses around 2,000 kanji, if I remember correctly. Only about 1,000 of them are taught in schools, and people are expected to learn the rest as they go along.

English really isn't that hard anyway, I really don't think we need to change it. It just makes it annoying to read (and makes your head hurt, owie! ;_; )

[Zeromus_X]

Oh. I've just been reminded of my inner hatred of kanji.....

I can imagine English being really difficult for non-native speakers.

Doing this would just confuse the hell out of everyone.

[Shauna]

This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I found it difficult to read half of that article thing.

Maybe if it does happen, we can form secret groups who spell right, and then we're all hunted by the police and... I'll just stop there. Silly imagination. :rolleyes2

[bipper]

It is about time we start catering to the st00pidz of the world...

...oh wait

[Raistlin]

Thae sae th bee selebraets th ability of a fue stoodents to master a dificult sistem that stumps meny utherz hoo cuud do just as wel if speling were simpler.

... and the World Cup celebrates the ability of a few athletes to master a difficult sport that many others fail at but could do just as well if it was much easier.

People are stupid.

[Tavrobel]

Mie bran has ben fried frum thet. It huurts.

[Mo-Nercy]

German is a language that more or less already does that.

English is already a relatively easy language to learn. Especially when compared to the East Asian languages, you'll find there's a lot less to take in and you can get a lot more out of much less knowledge. So not only is this a stupid idea with silly looking results, but it's also a pointless one.

[Kuzotz]

What the hell? No. Enough people can't even bother to use words with more than four letters, of course not. I'm not supporting illiteracy.

Same here man. I hate how conservatives are now advocating mediocricy.