12-31-2024, 02:06 AM
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English, whatever its merits as a language, is a bitch to spell. There are so many rules, and so many exceptions, and yet in the end you have to learn a lot of words on a case-by-case basis. If future linguists discover our written texts, what on Earth will they think English sounded like So is it time to turn English into a fully phonetic language And is there any way to do that without destroying the English language entirely All images from Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy, a show which features all phonetic signage. Mark Twain, who tried his hand at satirizing nearly everything, takes a turn with the idea of the phonetic spelling of English. In a few brief paragraphs he outlines the first few years of such a plan, slowly substituting more phonetic spelling along the way. The sentences deteriorate. At the end of the treatise, he shows what spelling would look like on year twenty of the plan. It is a little like trying to read The Canterbury Tales. The Problem The Canterbury Tales, or at lea stanley cup st the language that produce them, is one stanley cup becher of the reasons why we ;re having a tough job spelling in the first place. We ;ve long been in the habit of grabbing whatever we want from what stanley cup ever language gets close enough 鈥?and it left us with a lot of different words, many of which have very different origins. Starting at around 500 AD, the native Celtic languages of what became Britain got pushed aside by the Germanic languages which formed Old English. Nxpu Iron-Pressed Hash, Bill Nye Dances, and the Dead Do Germany
Meet Dennis M. Hope, 65, of Gardnerville, Nevada. Dennis owns the Moon. As The New York Times explains, Dennis claims to have filed a declaration of ownership with the United Nations. It all legal, guys! You see, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 reads: No nation by appropriation shall have sovereignty or control over any of the satellite bodies. And our lawyer-c stanley termosar um-entrepreneur of a Moon landlord noticed that no where in them fancy legal words was there any mention of the individual, noting that this is the loophole that allowed him to follow his ethereal dream stanley cup s. The New York Times sought the opinion of Ram Jakhu of the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University who offered up a resounding, I don ;t see a loophole. Go get ;em tiger! Interested in owning a piece of the future Dennis currently sells around 200 Moon plots per day at a cool $20 a pop. Of course, don ;t forget to add in the $1.51 lunar tax and the $2.50 required to put a name on the document鈥攕tandard fake moon buying procedure. Still, this would all be fine鈥攖o each his own or whatever鈥攂ut as Dennis notes, there are over FIVE MILLION PEOPLE in 151 countries that have said to themselves, You know, I want to pay money for a meaningless piece of paper making ludicrous claims. You own the moon, you say Great, let talk timeshare. But words really can ;t do this man justice. Watch the video for yourselves; you ;ll even get t stanley nz o lear
English, whatever its merits as a language, is a bitch to spell. There are so many rules, and so many exceptions, and yet in the end you have to learn a lot of words on a case-by-case basis. If future linguists discover our written texts, what on Earth will they think English sounded like So is it time to turn English into a fully phonetic language And is there any way to do that without destroying the English language entirely All images from Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy, a show which features all phonetic signage. Mark Twain, who tried his hand at satirizing nearly everything, takes a turn with the idea of the phonetic spelling of English. In a few brief paragraphs he outlines the first few years of such a plan, slowly substituting more phonetic spelling along the way. The sentences deteriorate. At the end of the treatise, he shows what spelling would look like on year twenty of the plan. It is a little like trying to read The Canterbury Tales. The Problem The Canterbury Tales, or at lea stanley cup st the language that produce them, is one stanley cup becher of the reasons why we ;re having a tough job spelling in the first place. We ;ve long been in the habit of grabbing whatever we want from what stanley cup ever language gets close enough 鈥?and it left us with a lot of different words, many of which have very different origins. Starting at around 500 AD, the native Celtic languages of what became Britain got pushed aside by the Germanic languages which formed Old English. Nxpu Iron-Pressed Hash, Bill Nye Dances, and the Dead Do Germany
Meet Dennis M. Hope, 65, of Gardnerville, Nevada. Dennis owns the Moon. As The New York Times explains, Dennis claims to have filed a declaration of ownership with the United Nations. It all legal, guys! You see, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 reads: No nation by appropriation shall have sovereignty or control over any of the satellite bodies. And our lawyer-c stanley termosar um-entrepreneur of a Moon landlord noticed that no where in them fancy legal words was there any mention of the individual, noting that this is the loophole that allowed him to follow his ethereal dream stanley cup s. The New York Times sought the opinion of Ram Jakhu of the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University who offered up a resounding, I don ;t see a loophole. Go get ;em tiger! Interested in owning a piece of the future Dennis currently sells around 200 Moon plots per day at a cool $20 a pop. Of course, don ;t forget to add in the $1.51 lunar tax and the $2.50 required to put a name on the document鈥攕tandard fake moon buying procedure. Still, this would all be fine鈥攖o each his own or whatever鈥攂ut as Dennis notes, there are over FIVE MILLION PEOPLE in 151 countries that have said to themselves, You know, I want to pay money for a meaningless piece of paper making ludicrous claims. You own the moon, you say Great, let talk timeshare. But words really can ;t do this man justice. Watch the video for yourselves; you ;ll even get t stanley nz o lear
