Spelling in the Modern Age.

Spelling is hard. There are enormous amounts of rules that invariably change without reason. Who thought of silent letters anyways? Why is there an "H" in the word why? It's pretty dumb. However, in response to the article we read, we can not just simply change all the words in the English language, no matter how much easier it would seem to make life, so that they are always spelled just how they sound. First reason why, the "th" sound. We don't have a letter to make that sound, so this ensures that some rules must still apply to the new method of spelling. Second point, one of the main reason's we have so many stupid rules on what letters mean or do what is because if we didn't have those rules, there would literally be hundreds of words spelled exactly the same way. Take the word "theory" for example. Sound it out and spell it just how it sounds, you get "there." Theory is not even close to meaning the same thing as there. Speaking of "there," what would you have to do to try and seperate the 3 types of there? (there, their, they're) Yes, in speech it wouldn't matter, but the differences in spelling signify the differences in meaning. For the most part, spelling things the way they sound would be an advantage, but honestly, why bother? If texting and IMing really doesn't affect spelling, then this generation shouldn't have any more difficulties than the last. Why worry about it?

Shanosha