Let pupils abandon spelling rules, says academic

HOORAAAAYYYYY!!!!!
Freedom, logic and decency for the children. Its about time !





David

Don't be stoopid, spelling matters

No, Walter; u have not thought it out fully.
Its only a matter of working it out.
Where there is a will there is a way.
First there must be a filosofical commitment, i.e.,
a policy decision to turn our attention to granting an efficient system
to future generations; the same principle as the metric system.
Emotionally, I dislike the metric system,
because I learned English measurements,
but I cannot deny that a system based on ten is better;
more efficient n more convenient.
The same applies to fonetic spelling.

The non-fonetic parts of the old system will fall of their own weight.
Inefficiency is non-viable.





David

I just posted some complaints on a lyrics site, about how almost none of them makes use of a word processor, none uses apostrophes in the right places, and many use 'there' and 'their' interchangeably. The only result: a rap writer wanted to argue and called me "almost a hater."

" The president of the Spelling Society says we should stop teaching
our children correct English spellings because
it is holding the little darlings back at school. "
It is false
to call the old accepted, non-fonetic way of spelling " correct ".
The old way of spelling is NOT correct.
Paradigmatic spelling is NOT correct insofar as it is non-fonetic,
because it offends logic, and it is by use of logic that we rose
to the top of the food chain.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1054092/Dont-stoopid-spelling-matters.html

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Oh, good morning David. Are you through yet?

Jeeez, I hope not, Ed.
These r supposed to be the Golden Years of my life.

Get fiber. Lots of it.

OK; I 'll call my tailor.

Which pronunciation of English would you choose? American English? British English? Australian English?

Why don't we just ditch school altogether? How about that?

Well, I can see staying home
and learning online, taking its tests, etc,
but u need to receive the necessary information somehow.

in 1962?

It's not that ******* hard. Pull your kids away from Hannah ******* Montana and give them some books.

Hannah's doing what to Montana?!?!?!

What a filthy, filthy mind.

Yes, but funny.

This is a false dilemma for phonetic spelling because the great variance is itself partly due to the lack of a phonetic standard and because having regional spelling to go along with the regional pronunciations isn't a problem.

So I'd choose American English as it is closest to what I use. If I were British I'd surely feel otherwise and given that there are already arbitrary spelling differences I see no reason why there would be a problem with regional spelling being codified based on the most logical relationship between speech and writing: phonetics.

Because everyone who uses a phonetic language doesn't go to school.