Words that should be respelt

[Kitsune]

You're right about my math analogy being incorrect, but I don't understand how your idea to improve literacy by dumbing down spelling is going to improve much. Why not improve teaching methods, instead? You're trying to alter something that has slowly evolved and changed over centuries overnight and you don't think there will be side damaging effects?

You still haven't addressed the issue of what dialect/accent we're going to standardize on, either. How is that going to be decided, or should we simply allow anyone to select whatever version of a word they desire?

Originally Posted by Kingswood

The world is not going to end tomorrow just because someone had the temerity to consider dropping a totally useless silent letter from a word that one might use a dozen times in a lifetime.

No, but any "rezoomay" that ends up on my desk with spellings like you suggest is going right in the trash, as in any business related e-mail that begins with "let me ax you a question".

Originally Posted by monster

Why so defensive? Why so unwilling to allow the topic to develop into a discussion?

In a parallel universe exists the exact opposite of a forum spelling nazi. Instead of correcting errors in other people's posts, they attempt to correct the language, itself. We may be witnessing the opening of a gateway...