Friday, June 4, 2010

America Is Getting More & More Lazy...


Yahoo News:

Four peaceful protesters, some dressed in full-length black and yellow bee costumes, represented the American Literacy Council and the London-based Spelling Society and stood outside the Grand Hyatt on Thursday, where the Scripps National Spelling Bee is being held. Their message was short: Simplify the way we spell words.

Roberta Mahoney, 81, a former Fairfax County, Va. elementary school principal, said the current language obstructs 40 percent of the population from learning how to read, write and spell.

"Our alphabet has 425-plus ways of putting words together in illogical ways," Mahoney said.

The protesting cohort distributed pins to willing passers-by with their logo, "Enuf is enuf. Enough is too much."

According to literature distributed by the group, it makes more sense for "fruit" to be spelled as "froot," "slow" should be "slo," and "heifer" — a word spelled correctly during the first oral round of the bee Thursday by Texas competitor Ramesh Ghanta — should be "hefer."


So, let me get this straight. These people want us to change the way we spell "fruit" or "slow" just because it "makes sense"? What about all of the other millions upon billions of people that DO know how to spell "fruit" and "slow"? Sure, let's dumb down society so that we can make the English language easier for others to understand. This just goes to show just how lazy Americans are. They don't want to put the time and effort into learning how to correctly spell these words, so they want to protest the change, so it's "easier". Well, tough news, life isn't easy. Deal with it.

1 comment:

  1. So anyone who can't master English doesn't deserve to live in America? Excellent point. Nice misspelling "official" on the sign.

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