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2010-April-14
Start simplifying English spelling today by declaring that you are thru with “through”.
Start writing: thru, tho, and altho
See the arguments against simplifying spelling rebutted.
See the pronunciation rules for the way sounds are described on this site.
See the next step in simpler spelling with seven simple rules that go beyond just thru, tho, and altho.
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This is nonsense. Absolute nonsense. The amount of spelling errors you have made within the first paragraph is a mockery to your already ridiculous “thru with through” campaign. It’s called English. It isn’t something you just readily play with like a linguistic lego set.
The spelling “errors” in this site are based on the set of 7 rules that I have proposed to simplify English spelling—separate from the more modest “thru with through” proposal. (Click on the Simpler Spelling 7 button.)
All languages change all the time, including their spelling. It’s usually a slow process (like choosing between alternatives like canceled and cancelled), but it can be a sudden process, like the recent German and Portuguese spelling reformations.
And language is most certainly something that you play with like a Lego set. We do it all the time, from rhyme to puns to corporate logos to Internet memes. Anyone who imagines that any language has rigid rules doesn’t understand language.
We as users of the language are free to change it however we want. In the 1700s, Thomas Jefferson and his crazy cronies started capitalizing every noun that seemed important. In the early 1800s, Americans went thru a K fad, spelling /k/ sounds with a K for fun and leading to the word OK (or okay) and Ku-Klux Klan. In the late 1800s, it was initial abbreviations (USA, KKK [K fad and initializing fad together!]). In the mid-1900s, it was acronyms (radar, NASA). It never ends.
why don’t you devise your own special language? Just don’t relate it in anyway to English, or of course Latin and Greek and any other component of the incredibly complex and intricate language that you are trying to defile with this ridiculous campaign. I’m sure the redneck, hick, facebook, idiot strain of English will DEFINITELY catch on.
Did Noah Webster defile the language by recommending certain simpler spellings over needlessly complicated ones? Were Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, and the inventor of the Dewey decimal system defilers for campaigning for spelling reform?
Or are people like you just incredibly dull-minded traditionalists who cling desperately to arbitrary rules and their hundreds of exceptions for no good reason?