English Spelling Risks Becoming Like Chinese Ideograms
Indeed, the present tendency in the scools is to dis- regard the fonetic basis of English spelling, and to treat the written and printed words as ideografs like Chinese the pupils being taught to recognize a word by its appearance as a whole, rather than by a f util attempt to analize the supposed sounds of the letters composing it. Vast amounts of mony and incalculable years hav been spent in efforts, never wholly success- ful, to teach children to memorize the intricate and unreasonable combinations of letters that convention- ally represent the spoken words of the English tung a feat that, more than any other accomplishment, is unreasonably assumed to stamp them as "educated".
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Folksonomies: culture spelling
Taxonomies:
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/family and parenting/children (0.530428)
/food and drink/food/grains and pasta (0.487826)
Keywords:
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Concepts:
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Orthography (0.867907): dbpedia | freebase
Teacher (0.775965): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Chinese character (0.762600): website | dbpedia | opencyc | yago
Education (0.751965): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Word (0.718860): dbpedia | freebase
Spelling reform (0.691358): dbpedia
Ideogram (0.675140): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc
Handbook of Simplified SpellingSchemas
Arguments for English Spelling Reform
This schema is a collection of arguments about how proper grammar, with its illogical and inconsistently applied rules, is used by academics and intellectuals to create a privileged class of people who's ideas deserve considering because they have successfully learned the irrational system.
