I’ll take it.
“no increase in ambiguity, or decrease in information”
neither one is possible!!!
unless 75% of the hard to spell words, stay the same
wle
If you think this is bad, you should see the hand writing. Cat scratchings.
But seriously, they can be very useful to convey mood. Some sentences look unnecessarily harsh or rude without the added context of facial expressions. That being said, I hate it when I use text to make a smiley face and it gets turned into an emoji automatically. Oftentimes auto-generated grin looks over-the-top whereas the text version is more subtle/subdued.
Also, emojis on this website are severely neutered for being so limited.
Yea, it’s difficult to anticipate what Biden will say when half of it is gibberish lol
The famous short passage that follows is a satirical response to this idea attributed to the American humorist Mark Twain.
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to be replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which c would be retained would be the ch formation, which will be dealt with later.
Year 2 might reform w spelling, so that which and one would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish y replasing it with i and Iear 4 might fiks the g/j anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez c, y and x — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais ch, sh, and th rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Why do that when we have spill chick built in these days?
slmjim
……….because spell check NEVER gets anything wrong…………
Especially those fancy Latin spells in the Henry Potter books, like “Habemus papam!”.
I tried that and my couch burst into flames.
yeah my kids are always doing that
wle
Lightbringer = nutt ium extra loony ium.
I about wet my britches laughing!
Wait… what?
Yes. I wasn’t initially, and I can generally write well enough to care. I prefer to write whole words, not sms-abbreviations. But that’s not really the point. Number one is about orthography making sense.
The argument that got me is school. Kids could spend learning more useful stuff. Phones and browsers can already correct us. They need it less than we did before texting.
English has its weird stuff, like homograhphs .
But french! It’s not a contest between which is the worst language, but french just has some twisted orthography, there are no real rules, (like how prefixes are added), a lot of things don’t make any sense anymore except for language historian geeks (nothing wrong with that, and it will be a great loss there) and even then, sometimes it’s just random. And I’m not even getting into grammar, that is probably worse.
Kids get demoralized, get bad grades, drop out. If we can educate people more at the loss or historic orthography, I say do it. We will get used to it. It will have a new kind of beauty, an efficient beauty (the best kind 
).
I don't think the OP has that power.
Maybe it's because this thread is a poll?
I was able to post a pic, but I'm using the Advanced Post Editor.
Maybe they were considered orthographic and not suitable for a family site—i think there is a rule against sexy pics and vids.
That we know of.
testing pix
TypeError: Cannot set properties of null (setting 'disabled')-with regular editor
trying advanced post editor
same thing wtf
hm
it is something about this thread
i can post pix in other threads
poll?
specifically turned off?
idk
here was the pic
mmmm
i also cannot insert a link that you can use
When a man calls himself a woman, and gvmnt forces me to agree, and consider him a woman, simplified spelling is the least of my concerns, i’m totally fine with ; ppl, prbly, w/e, idk, lol, lmao……. i know what it means, that is all the info i need, so yea, i’m for it,
Eh, must be you.