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I could barely understand the last sentence! Thank you for this hilarious passage.
by rmk 4y ago
I could barely understand the last sentence! Thank you for this hilarious passage.
- capableweb 4y agoMe neither. Thankfully, technology to the rescue: > What does this mean? > Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. >> This text seems to be an example of a proposed spelling reform for the English language. The author has purposefully misspelled words to demonstrate how this reform would change the current spelling system. Here is a translation of the text into standard English: >> "Finally, then, after some 20 years of orthographic reform, we would have a logical, coherent spelling in use throughout the English-speaking world." >> The text suggests that after 20 years of implementing changes to the spelling system, the English-speaking world would have a more logical and coherent spelling system.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoWhy, that looks suspiciously like Dutch.
- hoseja 4y agoMissing þ and ð honestly. Stop 'x' abuse, it has like five different meanings at least. Edit: wow, over twenty actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X#Other_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X#Other_languages
- csa 4y agoI’m not sure whether I’m proud or embarrassed that I didn’t need to slow down for that part. linguistics nerd flex
- drowsspa 4y agoFunnily enough it was pretty easy for me as a native Portuguese speaker
- riffraff 4y agoSame as an Italian, perhaps because it normalized vowels to a sane system, which is pretty far from the English one.