Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
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.
Actually the sample paragraph is quite understandable if you understand
a little German. If I remember correctly, the suggestion supposedly
came from the Germans, so I took the result as part of the joke.
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