Wed, 13 February 2008: Not going well...

[Richard K Niner]

[TyVulpine]

I think we should have seen that coming, since Millie once went through the dictionary, looking for spelling errors...

[Introspection]

Ah, I understand this feeling very well. If I were on Millie's place, my soul would be in great pain, indeed.

[teozo]

What if she uses some foregin latters.
That make the same sound as some pairs of letters do in the comic.
Like: Ž Š Č Ć Đ Ĉ Ĝ Ŝ Ĵ Ĥ Ŭ and various russian letters that I'm to bored to mention

ndr stnd m

[Sage]

What was the Ms. Mudd quote?
"Stupid expressive tail."

The tail tells a tale. I think.

Does anyone else find panel 2 to be sort of cute? Must be the angle.

[Steve the Pocket]

This reminded me of something I read once by Noah Webster. He made a concered effort to simplify spelling in this very manner. He failed to get it to catch on, but some of his simplifications stuck. (We have him to thank/blame for the spelling differences between Imperial and U.S. English.) Anyway, he once wrote a paragraph much like Millie's here, and it was reproduced in our otherwise-worthless high school American History textbook. I wish I still had it somewhere.

[GeorgiaCoyote]

I think we should have seen that coming, since Millie once went through the dictionary, looking for spelling errors...

Man...I didn't even remember that one. Well no one said re-writing the alphabet would be easy. I can understand the tail thingy well. Every time I encounter multiple spelling errors it feels as if my spine wants to jump from my back. Nicely done as always.

[Tom Flapwell]

I notice she didn't change the spelling of her own name.

[Lig]

I'd probably be in the same boat if I tried that. I'd be cringing at how horribly misspelled stuff was. Remember Millie altered spelling only works if more people then just you know about it. hehe.

[Chris]

Theres a 95% chance that DCS saw this thread by Likeafox: Linky

...And made it a new story in O&M.

[CodeCat]

If jú want tú tshéndzh inglish speling then the ém iz tú mék shúr jú rait wurdz júzing the sém leterz for ítsh saund. Ánd alsó ther shud bí ónlí wun speling for a wurd, ánd ítsh wurd shud bí ébl tú bí prenaunst ónlí wun wé.

[Simba Cub]

You gotta admire her determination though



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[marklungo]

Actually, some people have attempted what Millie did in real life. Check out these Wikipedia entries on English spelling reform and Basic English.

[Baconsticks]

Simplifying the English language...

Newspeak, anyone?

[Kyler Thatch]

Simplifying the English language...

Newspeak, anyone?

Not quite. Newspeak's goal was to take out so many words from the English vocabulary that the only coherent sentences you could form were those that agreed with The Party. Millie's just trying to make English words spell the way they're pronounced.

It's pretty hard to unlearn the spelling conventions we're used to, though. If at all, it would probably take a generation or two before society gets used to a new system.