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| The Salmonier Correctional Institution's Monthly Newsletter | June 2003 |
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Fonetic Fun It has often been pointed out that communication would be simpler if English speaking were not so unnecessarily difficult; for example, cough, plough, rough, through and thorough. A gradual program of changes would wipe out these anomalies. In the first year, "s" would be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly sivil servants in all sities would receive this news with joy. Then the hard "c" could be replased by "k"since both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion jn the minds of klerical workers, but typewriters kould be made with one less letter. And English would look more like German. There would be growing enthusiasm when, in the sekond year, it was announsed that the troublesome "ph" would henseforth be written "f". This would make words like fotograf twenty persent shorter to print. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double leters, whish have always been a deterent to akurate speling. We would al agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful. Therefor we kould drop them and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend. By this tim would be four years sins the skem began, and peopl would be reseptiv to steps sutsh as replasing "th" by "z". Perhaps zen ze funktion of "w" kould be taken on by "v" vitsh is, after al, half a "w". Shotly after zis, ze unnesesary "o" kould be dropd from words kontaining "ou". Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis, and evrivun vud find it ezi tu undersmad etsh ozer. Taken From Reader's Digest October 1996 p.12 |
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