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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by ams6110 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @07:41PM (#10643210)
It's happening by default anyway. Schools now encourage "inventive spelling" rather than correct spelling, so you have kids in 8th grade who can't spell basic words correctly but rather they write them how they sound.
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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by kibwen on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:09PM (#10643674)
For a historical anecdote, this sort of simplified phonetic spelling was championed in the early 1900s by Andrew Carnegie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board
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