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Compared with today, on average, they did. There's a generation of people that 'typ lyk dis'. So yes.

• jyounker 7mo ago
  Your point is less persuasive than you intended. You complain about linguistic ambiguity, but then you show an example of sensible spelling reform.
• ChrisGreenHeur 7mo ago
  that example is regarding syntax, and is actually no worse than any other