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Proposal to Simplify English languag

(c) 2004 T. Oesau

1. eliminat "ph". "f" works just as wel. al ocurences of "ph" wil be replaced by "f"


2. "i befor e exept after c" wil becom "i befor e. period."


3. duble leters wil be purged


4. al plurals wil end in "s", not "es"


5. capitalizasion - whats the point? the whol of the uper cas is gon


6. the sufix "tion" wil be eliminated. al words ending in "tion" wil now end in "sion"


7. the apostrophe in contracsions wil be removed


8. silent leters ar gon. if theyr silent, they serv no purpos


9. al ocurences of "qu" wil be purged wher "k" wil work just as wel


10. any combinasion of "el" when not ocuring at the begining of a word wil from henceforth be "le"


11. "y" is now always a vowel

the getysburg adres

for scor and seven years ago our fathers brot forth on this continent, a new nasion, concieved in liberty, and dedicated to the proposision that al men ar created equl.

now we ar engaged in a grat civil war, testing wether that nasion, or any nasion so concieved and so dedicated, can long endur. we ar met on a grat batle-field of that war. we hav com to dedicat a porsion of that field, as a final resting plac for thos who her gav thier livs that that nasion mit liv. it is altogether fiting and proper that we shuld do this.

but, in a larger sens, we can not dedicat -- we can not consecrat -- we can not halo -- this ground. the brav men, living and ded, who strugled her, hav consecrated it, far abov our por power to ad or detract. the world wil litle not, nor long remember wat we say her, but it can never forget wat they did her. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated her to the unfinished work wich they who fot her hav thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be her dedicated to the grat task remaining befor us -- that from thes honored ded we tak increased devosion to that caus for wich they gav the last ful mesur of devosion -- that we her hihly resolv that thes ded shal not hav died in vain -- that this nasion, under god, shal hav a new birth of fredom -- and that government of the pepl, by the pepl, for the pepl, shal not perish from the erth.