agh, beat me to it.Originally posted by: BoomerD
Ebonics FTW!
I was about the edit with that. You've already got Ebonics, which I hate you for, no way in hell are you getting another one.Originally posted by: BoomerD
Ebonics FTW!
who says, maybe webster is wrong.Originally posted by: LoKe
So instead of learning how things are done properly, we're just going to get lazy and do what's easier? What a great lesson.
Yeah, and for the love of God, it's probably, not probly or prolly. And on the same note, Com-for-ta-ble, not comfterble.Originally posted by: So
most words are already basically spelled the way they sound....all we've done is gotten lazy about pronouncing a letter or two here or there over time.
Well, they didn't teech me that in skool...Originally posted by: NatePo717
I think most words are already spelt they way they sound....
People would be spelling Car - Cah, Horse - Has, Park - Pak, Yard - yad, etc. around here....Originally posted by: iroast
Not a good idea. Not everyone hear and speak exactly the same way.
But they SHOULD hear and "speek" exactly the same way. So much less confusion then.Originally posted by: iroast
Not a good idea. Not everyone hear and speak exactly the same way.
Instead of 42 sounds spelt 400 ways, we would have 42 words spelt 400 ways because everyone pronounced the words differently."It's a very difficult thing to get something accepted like this," says Alan Mole, president of the American Literacy Council, which favors an end to "illogical spelling." The group says English has 42 sounds spelled in a bewildering 400 ways.
or is it spelled?Originally posted by: NatePo717
I think most words are already spelt they way they sound....
my wife has polish remover, why do pollacks need removing?Originally posted by: LoKe
Yeah, and for the love of God, it's probably, not probly or prolly. And on the same note, Com-for-ta-ble, not comfterble.Originally posted by: So
most words are already basically spelled the way they sound....all we've done is gotten lazy about pronouncing a letter or two here or there over time.