Let's Make Everyone Retarded

[Ogre]

<p>I read this article and could not believe my eyes.&nbsp; It gave me a headache..or..Hedake, towards the end.</p><p><strong><font size="3">Push for simpler spelling persists...</font></strong></p><p>WASHINGTON (AP)&nbsp;- When &quot;say,&quot; &quot;they&quot; and &quot;weigh&quot; rhyme, but &quot;bomb,&quot; &quot;comb&quot; and &quot;tomb&quot; don't, wuudn't it maek mor sens to spel wurdz the wae thae sound?&nbsp; Those in favor of simplified spelling say children would learn faster and illiteracy rates would drop. Opponents say a new system would make spelling even more confusing.</p><p>Link to the article.&nbsp; It only gets worse.</p><p><a title="Wurd.." href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060705/ap_on_re_us/simpl_wurdz" target="_self">Wurd...</a></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Ogre on 7-7-06 @ 4:09 AM</span>

[Fallon]

I want to shit down Darlene Superville's throat. What a horrible article.<br />

[PapaBear]

<p>Ime&nbsp;confuzed bie this consept.</p><p>On uh syd noht...&nbsp;Uh Bulgaryan gie toled me, hee thot Amarikan naimz sound'd stoopid tu him. He evin sed mi naim (wich iz Pol) iz&nbsp;stoopid tu Bulgaryanz. I didn't reuliz Pol wuz&nbsp;uh naim that wuz Amarikan. Last tym I chek'd... Pol wuz a naim in da Buybal.</p>

[narc]

I remember reading about the pedigree this concept has - with Carnegie, Rockefeller and Roosevelt behind it, as well as Benjamin Franklin.<br><p>
My take on it is that English is always evolving anyway to be more simplistic anyway, so it'll become retarded eventually anyway. <br><p>
Reading that article was like reading a Robbie Burns poem though. Only, you know, bad.

[JamMaster]

<p>Reading such idiocy from the article makes me want to throw up.</p>

[OGC]

<strong>Ogre</strong> wrote:<br /><p>...&nbsp; Those in favor of simplified spelling say children would learn faster and illiteracy rates would drop. ... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="times new roman,times,serif" size="3">Even simpler, why don't we just&nbsp;switch the definitions of stupid and smart, the all the people who have trouble on tests would be smart. I don't have too much trouble with tests and it doesn't bother me if you call me stupid.</font></p>

[reeshy]

Sounds like a bad Kurt Vonnegut short story!!!!!<br />

[A.J.]

<p>Those ebonics supporters were on to something....called institutionalized stupidity.</p>

[Sheeplovr]

............................ not such a bad idea...<br />

[phixion]

<p>winston grooms forrest gump had less spelling stupidity. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>yeah lets dumb down everythingm why not just put catheters into babies instead of toilet training itll save time and make life easier. fucking retards</p>

[feralBoy]

<p>I read this and couldn't help but think of Newspeak from 1984.&nbsp; I just don't understand the idea of simplifying things.&nbsp; It just seems like we are masking the problem of stupidity.&nbsp; Maybe i'm wrong though.</p><p>When you look at the fact that Mark Twain thought this was a good idea, how can you disagree?&nbsp; Maybe he just thought it would be a good idea, because it's funny...</p>

[SatCam]

How is the word "thae" a simpler form of the word "they"?

[boeman]

<strong>narc</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Reading that article was like reading a Robbie Burns poem though. Only, you know, bad. </p><p>so... no difference.</p>

[FUNKMAN]

why they do this? i am new to this country and i cannot even chew popcorn while driving cab....

[SatCam]

Let's Make Everyone Retarded

The BEP had the right idea

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