The Lone Haranguer

Ask a retired learning disabilities teacher with a Linguistics major & he will say: "If you reformed like the French fixed theirs (by NOT forcing current users to relearn or use the new spellings) you could spent more time teaching grammar & teaching this: 'And it needs to be reformed bc the consequences are years of delays in learning & reading acquisition. How is this good for the anglosphere & the billions in the rest of the world who are trying to learn? The French fixed theirs a bit lately and, game-changer, did NOT force current users to relearn or use the new spellings. It worked. Paradigms have shifted even more with smart phones. Enough of the old, backward status quo. Reform it. You & I won't have to relearn or use the new spellings. Research shows there are an estimated 200,000* phono-illogical spelling errors in the 200+ y. o. English spelling system that delays reading acquisition by years for all English-speaking Primary kids in the anglosphere: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wil…? Obviously, phonics won't help much since there are 200,000 phono-illogical errors. Think of awe, are, & ate. That stresses the brain. Even Einstein found it "treacherous". Hint? No one sane buys cars that have defects, never mind 200,000. Who gives the beater to their own kids? Absolutely bonkers! Btw, it has always been a problem: edweek.org/education/reagan-…. Not much history, geography,... are taught in those dumb decodables! Worse? The system affects lower socio-economic kids more: educationnext.org/dont-dismi…. Worse? Illiteracy costs per year in the USA alone are pegged as 2 trillions. There are also CIA operations putting lower-socioeconomic groups in jeopardy or dependence: youtu.be/oHpA9r3RAsE?si=_WCc…. KKK, Zionists, & evangelicals love to keep the classes like they are. So, we are teaching a phono-illogical system to kids & we are surprised that kids love to watch Tiktok videos instead. 🙄 It's up to us to make English more palatable, dare I say, evolve, but many think that would be dumbing it down. Right? ALL Italian & Finnish kids don't struggle. They can decode any book by Grade 1. They must be really dumb reading quantum mechanics books when Dick-and-Jane-like decodables are available! 😭 The French fixed theirs a bit lately and game-changer did NOT force current users to relearn or use the new spellings.If you cannot get the benefit of a reform, which is non-despotic, you are the problem. Otherwise, like & repost my thread below. Btw, it is not a language change. Btw, old books can be scanned & digitized. Btw, street signs & shop signs can stay as is. Btw, the variety of dialectal accents would not be an issue using this model. Help me fix those 200,000 errors by liking & reposting, which has more info & proof: teapawt.org/PeterDMayr/status/1766… or raise counter-arguments. We are better than the Taliban loving their backward burqas. Right? *If we extrapolate on Masha Bell's research on 7000 common words & the lexicon is 400,000 words'"