cause = cos?

Good post, Freckled Girl. This entire debate hinges on simplified for whom? The answer is always “me.” But should it be for the me in Glasgow, Scotland, or the me in San Diego, California? The me in Perth, Australia, or the me in Portland, Maine?

One responder above changes “because” to “cos.” Why? I say “bekuz,” as God intended. And if we’re going to simplify, why not get the “h” out of yah and make it ya? Only I say “yup,” a far more agreeable affirmative, which to my mind should be universal.

Let’s get away from the selfish geographical “me” and focus on an even more selfish youthful “me”: I don’t care how u teach me 2 rite I gonna do watts rad n kewl.

The real problem is that except in a private diary (which any fool with a snoopy mother knows has to be in an unbreakable private code) the purpose to write isn’t to write to “me.” It’s to tell stories to readers. Or explain, describe, or convince readers. Those wanting to make things easy for “me” are not thinking of “them,” the main reason to write in the first place.

Those who read don’t only read computers and magazines, media easy to change. We read material going back further than Gutenberg. Do we change it all? And again, by whose idea of the “right” way? “Write” way? “Rite” way? “Wright way?” Hmmm. All of the preceding have different meaning, thus the different spellings.

Do the phonicsphobes really think understanding for the reader will be enhanced if “there,” “their,” “they’re” and in some places “there’re” all have the same spelling, just to ease things for lazy writers?

Why should someone wanting to read about a wether (neutered male sheep) have to decide if the word used to mean whether (either-or) or weather (climate)?