Phonetisch Engels
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We are in complete accord with Bernard Shaw's campaign for a simplified alphabet. But instead of immediate drastic legislation, we advocate a modified plan.
In 1947, for example, we would urge the substituting of ‘s’ for soft ‘c’ Sertainly students in all sities of the land would be reseptive to this.
In 1948 the hard ‘c’ would be replased by ‘k’ sinse both letters are pronounsed identikally. Not only would this klarify the konfusion in the minds of spellers, but typewriters and linotypes kould all be built with one less letter and all the manpower and materials previously devoted to making ‘c's’ kould be used to raise the national standard of living.
In the subsequent blaze of publisity, it would be announsed that the troublesome ‘ph’ would henseforth be written ‘f’. This would make words like ‘fonograf’ 20 persent shorter in print.
By 1949 publik interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have reatshed a point where more radikal prosedures are indikated. We would urge at that time the elimination of al double leters whitsh have always ben a nuisanse and desided deterent to akurate speling.
We would al agre that the horible mes of silent ‘e's’ in our language is disgrasful. Therefor, in 1951, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of edukation. Sins by this tim it would be four years sins anywun had used the leter ‘c’ we would then suggest substituting ‘c’ for ‘th’.
Kontinuing cis proses year after year, we would eventuali hav a reali sensibl writen languag. By 1975 wi ventyur tu sa cer wud bi no mor uv ces teribli trublsum difikultis. Even Mr. Yaw we beliv wud be hapi in ce noleg cat his drims finali kam tru.
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