Simplified English?

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

Was anyone else reminded of Newspeak from 1984?
I mean seriously.

[jesteranimefreak]

...After we simplify the spelling, we can start doing away with all those redundant synonyms our language still contains. Why should people have to memorize, for example, so many different words for 'good'. Excellent, Fantastic, Great, etc. We should get rid of them all. 1984 anyone?

Seriously, I think that languages/spellings grow and change over long periods of time, but any 'official' attempt to artificially alter them is a doubleplusungood idea.

ACK!!! No no 1984!!!

[Moon Rabbits]

This idea is terrible. Once the kids learn english this way it will be difficult to teach them proper english. ._. Plus it is just painful to decode and read.

[NorthernChaosGod]

smurf that. American English should stay just the way it is. People all over the globe already think we're stupid because of the way our school systems are run. If anything, we should make things harder, and make people go to school more.