I cannot believe the USA are seriously pushing for the implementation of such a system. Perhaps they ought revise the way they educate children in English, rather than degrade the entire country's English altogether.

Have they not stopped to query how accents come into play here? The country would have multiple spellings for the same words, 'new', for instance, might be spelt 'Noo', or 'Nu', depending what part of the country you're from.

Learning English is not a difficult task for most, I fail to see why they feel the need to change it - it has done fine in it's life so far.

I feel that altering their people's language to such an extent will hinder communications with other countries that use proper English. Doubly so with countries that have English as a second language; take Japan for instance, their population doesn't have much trouble learning it, why does theirs?
How do they think their children will feel when collaborating in some sort of English essay (for example) with children that speak 'proper' English?

Again I'm back to the point of it being a simple matter of their education system, and parenting. My siblings and I were taught from a very young age and have had no problems what-so-bloody-ever.

Following are some quotes various people around the internet have said:-


" A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling by Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld."


"simplified spelling? and they think that'll help illiteracy? i swear the blind are leading the blind....."


"This is pathetic. Written English is one of, if not the most beautiful language on Earth. Written English has blessed mankind with Shakespeare, Dickinson, Dickens, Stevenson, Yeats, and Longfellow. And these lazy myspace users want to mess it up because they are too god damn lazy to use a dictionary, or GOD FORBID a thesaurus. They probably don't even know what a thesaurus is."


"American children are dumb because there are a handful of retarded adults that think spelling is too difficult? I have yet to hear of a child asking for this...not that most kids don't start out trying to spell like this (And I mean ALL kids.)"