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'Enuf is enuf': Protesters in bee suits outside Spelling Bee want to make English simpler
FOXNews.com ^ | June 4, 2010 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/04/2010 8:07:31 AM PDT by metmom

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To: olepap
phonetic spelling obliterates word geneology. It destroys the meaning. Literate people can tell if a word has Latin, French, or Olde English roots - this adds texture and meaning to our lives...

Kemal Ataturk's "language reform" was, in the words of one sympathetic observer, "a catastrophic success." Yes, it made the Turkish people much more literate, almost overnight. OTOH, it cut off their literary connection to a thousand years of history. Which, come to think of it, was the point.

41 posted on 06/04/2010 11:23:26 AM PDT by RJR_fan (Christians need to reclaim and excel in the genre of science fiction.)
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To: Dallas59

No, it’s “double-plus ungood.” To some extent, newspeak is modeled on Esperanto.


42 posted on 06/04/2010 11:24:30 AM PDT by RJR_fan (Christians need to reclaim and excel in the genre of science fiction.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Let’s hear it for thorn and eth! And don’t forget ash!


43 posted on 06/04/2010 11:27:02 AM PDT by RJR_fan (Christians need to reclaim and excel in the genre of science fiction.)
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To: olepap

>>phonetic spelling obliterates word geneology. It destroys the meaning. Literate people can tell if a word has Latin, French, or Olde English roots - this adds texture and meaning to our lives...<<

Brilliant! and so true.


44 posted on 06/04/2010 11:54:04 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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To: chris_bdba
Most of us learn English just fine and can spell IMHO those who have problems need to be tutored by their parents or by paid tutors. If neither work perhaps they have some other learning disability that needs to be addressed?

If they get back to teaching phonics and language of origin, that would be a start.

Then you just memorize the rest.

45 posted on 06/04/2010 11:54:54 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

And let’s round pi down to an easier to remember 3.0000000.

Dumbing down the populace. That’s the goal of socialists.

Remember nearly 20 years ago when they tried to push through ebonics in schools in the Clinton Error?


46 posted on 06/04/2010 12:04:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

Yoo beet mi to iyt! I knoo Twayn wood end up in heer sumwear.


47 posted on 06/04/2010 12:52:33 PM PDT by BattleHymn
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Look how well Ebonics went over.

I, for one, am sick and tired of the left diddling our language. Remember when Gay used to mean Happy? A Bum was a bum, and not Homeless? People were Short and not Vertically Challenged? Retarded meant what it said, and physically handicapped people weren’t Otherly Abled?

Of course, this crap spawned a whole bunch of confusing oxymorons, such as Politically Correct. Which it ain’t.


48 posted on 06/04/2010 5:56:45 PM PDT by Tigerized (pursuingliberty.com)
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To: RJR_fan

I never mastered newspeak./s


49 posted on 06/04/2010 8:25:01 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: metmom

Put some ice on it and teach the kids!


50 posted on 06/04/2010 11:54:41 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: metmom
A stupid child grows into a stupid adult that doesn't question its government is doing.

This is no accident.

51 posted on 06/05/2010 7:34:42 AM PDT by Houmatt (Can we make Obama a one-term President? YES WE CAN!)
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