Protesting Spelling

The other day I came across this news story. These protesters have the wrong idea, if you want to change how words are spelled in the English language, standing around dressed like bees isn't the way to go. No, if you really want to make a difference, the best way to do it is to strategically infiltrate the companies that print dictionaries and the school system. Then, then over the course of 70 years, slowly change the spelling of words. Not that I've actually given this much thought or anything...

But in all seriousness, I have agree with these protesters, the English language is overly complicated. Any language that has words like colonel where we pronounce it with an 'r' that isn't even there, has a problem. Plus, what's with all these letters changing their sounds? Although, it could be worse, we could be French.

Some would argue, that the English language shouldn't be changed, that it is perfectly fine the way it is. In fact one of the people who commented on the story wrote, "This former "educator" thinks that because it takes effort to read and write English, we should simply dumb down our language rather than challenge ourselves to learn?!" but people like this are missing the point, the English language wouldn't be "dumbed down" it would be made more logical. It doesn't make sense to have so many letters duplicate the sounds of others, and don't eve get me started on silent letters. But in the end, the argument doesn't really matter. The English language is here to stay, and no number of protesters is going to change that. Unless, my scheme works. But of course, your not supposed to know about that...

Until I rite agen, gud bie.

~Nat