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>To make English spelling more "logical" (so people need to remember less useless information!), we should again look to Mark Twain: >> Fainali, xen, aafte sam
by vram22 8y ago
>To make English spelling more "logical" (so people need to remember less useless information!), we should again look to Mark Twain:
>> Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/twain.htm http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/twain.htm)
And we should also look to George Bernard Shaw. He proved that, in English, "fish" can be spelled "ghoti":
gh (= f) as in "laugh"
o (= i) as in "women"
ti (= sh) as in "nation"
- bmn__ 8y agohttps://www.zompist.com/spell.html https://www.zompist.com/spell.html "Whenever the subject comes up, someone is sure to bring up […] Shaw's ghoti-- a word which illustrates only Shaw's wiseacre ignorance. English spelling may be a nightmare, but it does have rules, and by those rules, ghoti can only be pronounced like goatee."