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Reads like Mark Twain’s short piece “A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling” https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html https://faculty.george
by vundercind 2y ago
Reads like Mark Twain’s short piece “A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling”
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html
[edit] Maybe Twain, anyway. The attribution is dubious, but common.
- nobody9999 2y ago>Reads like Mark Twain’s short piece “A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling” Which is a gem, regardless of authorship. Another related bit associated with Twain is: “whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”[0] Which, as a native English speaker who learned German, I find both amusing and (mostly) correct. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/115614-whenever-the-literary-german-dives-into-a-sentence-this-is https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/115614-whenever-the-literar... Edit: Added source reference link.