Push for Simpler Spelling: English as a Global Language

[eric.dunn at ca.transport.bombardier.com]

techwr-l-bounces+eric.dunn=ca.transport.bombardier.com at lists.techwr-l.com 
wrote on 07/07/2006 08:58:30 AM:

> That's a good point about changes originating in
> society, rather than being imposed.

If imposing a simplified standard language was a good idea, Esperanto 
would have been spoken by everyone by now.

Campaigning for simplified English based entirely on phonetics is 
ludicrous and insulting. It is self-centred navel gazing that determines 
that a particular groups pronunciations and cultural cues are better than 
all others (or is language to become fragmented into locally understood 
writing only?) and it is simple laziness promoting the belief that effort 
to learn is wasted and excellence in learning shouldn't be celebrated.

I'll support the misguided protesting against spelling bees when society 
forces everyone to participate in sports wearing debilitating and 
equalising braces and other implements and over-paid and over adulated 
professional sport is relegated to oblivion.

But that's unlikely to happen. It's still more popular to cheer the dumb 
jocks blessed with size, muscle, or coordination and castigate/taunt those 
endowed with intellectual or artistic gifts. On that note, society hasn't 
evolved much past the level of cavemen.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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