So, Reggles has picked up on the weird relationship between American-English and Real-English in his last post (the context being his attention-seeking “sneakers”).

Firstly I am going to highlight a sample of spelling differences which has bred confusion in this globalised world:

British — American
centre — center
cheque — check
grey —– gray
kerb —– curb (wait who spells curb as kerb anyway?!)
pyjamas - pajamas
tyre —— tire

As a Brit, I myself get brainwashed by American-English which gets me in trouble when it comes to important exams. You know they assess your english writing and communication ability in every subject, which includes correct spelling. So if I was to write “some people prefer gray to lightbulbs” I may lose a mark… probably not but this is serious! Society is evolving such that American spelling is inflicting upon my life in a negative manner. As a webdesigner I must write center over the correct version, centre. The same goes for color. And pajamas - when I decide to write it - but that’s a weird word either way. That spelling should be pronounced pa-jam-as.. afterall that is how its spelt! But no… some old and dead English academics had to make it difficult.

I vote for an English language revolution.

Let’s spell things how they should be pronounced - isn’t that logical? Why spell trough, well as trough, when it’s pronounced troff not trow?! I think a time will come, soon, when American-English and British-English will be combined and under the UN a new Proper-English shall be founded. It’s not fair on non-english speakers trying to learn English, or on us English speakers! So it would be much better, for the harmony of the world, if one universal english language version was founded.

Perhaps there should be one universal language period. Think of the time wasted in schools teaching kids how to speak, write and read French, Spanish, Swahili and English when one language (English.. because its easier for me) would be much more efficient! So let’s do it.

Edit: It appears that attempts have already been made - the langauge of esperanto! No one seems to bothered by this though, so we can still work on ours :)

I’ll start the first word of our new 21st centuary language and everyone else can sort out the remainder of our dictionary:

Trainers: general purpose or sports shoes.

In fact it appears I have just defined into our language 5 or 6 words. See how easy it is! This’ll take no time.

So, Reggles has picked up on the weird relationship between American-English and Real-English in his last post (the context being his attention-seeking “sneakers”).

Firstly I am going to highlight a sample of spelling differences which has bred confusion in this globalised world:

British — American
centre — center
cheque — check
grey —– gray
kerb —– curb (wait who spells curb as kerb anyway?!)
pyjamas - pajamas
tyre —— tire

As a Brit, I myself get brainwashed by American-English which gets me in trouble when it comes to important exams. You know they assess your english writing and communication ability in every subject, which includes correct spelling. So if I was to write “some people prefer gray to lightbulbs” I may lose a mark… probably not but this is serious! Society is evolving such that American spelling is inflicting upon my life in a negative manner. As a webdesigner I must write center over the correct version, centre. The same goes for color. And pajamas - when I decide to write it - but that’s a weird word either way. That spelling should be pronounced pa-jam-as.. afterall that is how its spelt! But no… some old and dead English academics had to make it difficult.

I vote for an English language revolution.

Let’s spell things how they should be pronounced - isn’t that logical? Why spell trough, well as trough, when it’s pronounced troff not trow?! I think a time will come, soon, when American-English and British-English will be combined and under the UN a new Proper-English shall be founded. It’s not fair on non-english speakers trying to learn English, or on us English speakers! So it would be much better, for the harmony of the world, if one universal english language version was founded.

Perhaps there should be one universal language period. Think of the time wasted in schools teaching kids how to speak, write and read French, Spanish, Swahili and English when one language (English.. because its easier for me) would be much more efficient! So let’s do it.

Edit: It appears that attempts have already been made - the langauge of esperanto! No one seems to bothered by this though, so we can still work on ours :)

I’ll start the first word of our new 21st centuary language and everyone else can sort out the remainder of our dictionary:

Trainers: general purpose or sports shoes.

In fact it appears I have just defined into our language 5 or 6 words. See how easy it is! This’ll take no time.