An article on why we should reform English orthography.
Now, do you think there's a sensible comment in the lot? Do you think anybody commenting there has any idea of how language works? Because if you do, you're in for a shock!
No, it's all "Oh, you want to dumb down the language" and "Oh, obviously my variety is better than yours because yours is wrong" and "Oh, you must hate English". Blah, blah, blah. If people will persist in being ignorant all the time, can't they at least be ignorant in different ways?
Now, do you think there's a sensible comment in the lot? Do you think anybody commenting there has any idea of how language works? Because if you do, you're in for a shock!
No, it's all "Oh, you want to dumb down the language" and "Oh, obviously my variety is better than yours because yours is wrong" and "Oh, you must hate English". Blah, blah, blah. If people will persist in being ignorant all the time, can't they at least be ignorant in different ways?
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Date: 2011-11-02 07:26 pm (UTC)Let me save you the pain.
Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages
Book 2 of Troilus and Criseyde, apparently.
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