Originally posted by: BoomerD
Ebonics FTW!
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Ebonics FTW!
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.
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.
Originally posted by: NatePo717
I think most words are already spelt they way they sound....
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.
"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.
Originally posted by: NatePo717
I think most words are already spelt they way they sound....
Originally posted by: LoKe
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.
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.