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Numbers? Since when? Ha, that's funny! Everyone knows that it's not okay to spell with numbers. My brother tried that on an essay once. Someone about simplified spelling(he had to ask me to figure out how to spell that). Unfortunately, since simplified spelling was the subject, he got a B. Even worse, the reason he got a B is because he couldn't spell the simplified words correctly.

As bad an analogy as that might be, Ando, you're right. It's just like Darkelf said. They're trying to raise literacy by lowering its standards.

People say that they hope this is a joke. Think about it: Stupid people never have a sense of humor. There's no way this could be a joke. Go to the Chatterbox. Or Barton Town. Type in complete sentences. People don't tend to like it. You won't get a bunch of happy people responding.

That is just sad. Also even when they attempt to spell it phonetically, it makes it harder to read than originally were. It took a few seconds for me to figure out some words.

I can't read that crap. It makes me feel dumb (not dum). I think that's one of the wrost ideas I've ever heard of. The nead to be slapped.

That aricle is horrible! It made me physically ill...why would people even think of doing that? It's disgusting! I know, english isn't the easiest language to spell in, I make spelling errors all the time, but that doesn't mean we should destroy the language! The article honestly looks like a three year old wrote half of it! They say America is headed in a good direction with each generation more intelligent than the last, but if what this article spoke of actually happens, I'm moving to another country. If we can't respect our language, I can't respect the country....so I can only hope this will stop. Now, I'm sorry, but I need to go calm myself, that article made me angry and sick...my apologies....goodbye.

This language has taken thousands of years to develop. But screwing with the spelling, our society would be (is) throwing away years and years of history.

I think the reason children outside of the U.S. (languages other than english) catch on faster, is simply becasue of parents. American parents are not as involved as european parents.

In America we're more encouraged to sit on our butts watching T.V. than attempting to teach the alphabet to our children.

By changing the spellings of words in the English langauge to make them easier to spell, we're making it okay for parents across the U.S. to be uninvolved. Why change education for the parents who don't care? It makes no sence! GRAH!

Besides, if hope were to be spelt the way it sounds...it would still be spelt "hope"..."hoep" would be pronounces hoe-ehp

boo.

eek It sounds like someone *cough* mole *cough* needs to die. ninja

The only thing that would do is confuse the kids who are smart and know how to spell. Instead of funding the schools programs to teach kids to spell the right way, they are trying to pull off a bull crap "Change the way to spell."

What that is doing is dragging the dreaded "txt tlk" in to real life... Save me.

And don't forget. Once you dumb down english, math comes next. Once they are eliminated, science has to fall. With them gone, the only thing left is athletics. You can't very well dumb down gym, so the jocks will rule everything; First the school, then the businesses. The nerds will have nowhere to go. We will be back to square one, no more than pond scum, while the thick skulled brutes control the country/countries.