2006-07-06 11:13:19 · 10 answers · asked by zarandipity 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
it is actually being considered by owr govt. ay camen to tak tu yu i menet tu tak .is not the text message but in schools.
2006-07-06 11:34:11 · update #1
Wish I knew one, I need it.
2006-07-13 10:09:43 · answer #1 · answered by CottonPatch 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As usual there is a lot of wrong facts on this page so far.
Simplified spelling is not about people being lazy and it is
certainly much much older than text messaging. Most other
countries have had major simplified spelling reforms. The
movement here began back with Ben Franklin. Other
proponents have been such people as, Mark Twain, Bernard
Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Carnegie to name
a very few. There are good arguments for both sides. I favor
some limited changes, but overall I agree with the side of not
changing it as I do believe we retain a lot of information in
the common roots, prefixes, and suffixes of words.
2006-07-13 15:51:26 · answer #2 · answered by PoohP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The USA already has its problems with education, so the answer is simplified spelling? Hmmm, so let just dumb ourselves down, convince everyone this is a good idea and thus we have less of a problem. Stick our heads in the sand to the real problem and that is quality public education in the USA.
As far as the handicapped and non English speakers go, this will be a challenge to learn and what is wrong with a challenge? I am learning a new language, and it is hard, I suck at spelling English too. Challenges are not bad.
2006-07-13 10:07:58 · answer #3 · answered by dcurbancontessa 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I teach English as a Second Language and have found that spelling is one of the biggest obstacles to learning this language. A form of simplified spelling is already being used by millions of young people in text messages and chat rooms worldwide. Though switching to a simplified spelling system would initially cause a great deal of confusion, I believe that in the end, it would lower the illiteracy rate (which is connected to both poverty and crime). Simplifying the spelling system is one simple way of making our country a better place.
2006-07-07 01:38:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like it. I think this society has become lazy. Learning how to spell is one of the first experiences we have academically, and it may not make sense when we are young, but eventually we conquer it. We need obstacles in order to learn and in order to better ourselves, if we just change everything when it gets too hard, we are setting ourselves up for mediocrity.
On my own personal soapbox, I work with deaf children, who are already at a disadvantage in written English. How do you think someone who has never heard a spoken word will do with a written language that is based on pronunciation?
And how do you factor in accents? What word is this: "pahked"? Is it "parked" (Boston) or is it "packed"? Just a little food for thought.
2006-07-07 03:36:26 · answer #5 · answered by seasonsoflove 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't teach the kids how to spell, so let the kids make-up their own way of spelling. Kinda like letting the inmates run the asylum. And the dumbest ones are in the congress for even considering it.
2006-07-08 03:11:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was only discovered when TEXT message was used in the mobile phone, that we can easily communicate and understand each other thru simplified spelling.
2006-07-06 18:25:29 · answer #7 · answered by MaSTeR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the stupidest idea since Ebonics.
Remember Ebonics?
2006-07-07 01:50:30 · answer #8 · answered by Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that it is quite stupid.
2006-07-06 18:42:40 · answer #9 · answered by shop4tots 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what are you talking about?
2006-07-06 18:24:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋