I must admit I had a good laugh when I read it. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world! Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.Īfter zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.īy the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.Īs part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
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We would have one less thing we have to study at school, and the same time and effort can be used to learn something more meaningful and useful. We just have to deal with the grammar Nazis cringe and squirm uncontrollably for several years until they get over it. In other words, the English language has incorporated different systems of inflection, and now we are stuck with them.īut I feel that this is something that we could all agree to change, just as the whole world (except for the Americans) decided at one point to adopt the metric system. Not being a linguist, I didn’t quite get some of the things explained there, but I understood that the irregular verbs and nouns came from different linguistic systems within which they were perfectly regular. I found this entry on Wikipedia about Indo-European ablaut which explains the history of it.
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If native speakers of English have a hard time learning it at first, how did irregular verbs and nouns come into existence in the first place? It’s as if some sadistic English teacher invented them so that he would have more things to test his students on. This lead me to look up the history of irregular verbs and nouns.
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I thought kids learn in a more empirical, case-by-case manner, rather than relying on logical patterns. So, they face the same exact frustration that ESL students do, which was a bit of a surprise to me. Obviously kids learn the rules and try to consistently apply them instead of learning the usage of every word case by case. My 4-year old daughter haven’t learned about irregular verbs and nouns yet, so she often uses the regular versions like “hided”, “breaked”, “mouses”, “fishes”, etc.