Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 21:32 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:07:25 -0500
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> 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".
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