There was an effort in the US to simplify the alphabet, but that was about as popular as kilometers-per-hour or liters of piss.
“Inconsistent”?
I just know I’m gonna regret asking that . . .
Hmm. I wonder why? It’s all the same old system, isn’t it?
Selfish of them, in my opinion.
There are monuments to the Rebels at Gettysburg. There is a Confederate cemetery in Madison Wisconsin that even has a rebel flag flying along with a nice monument. (They were prisoners of war who died and were respectfully buried.)
You’d think that just once the old Southern Rebels would see the light.
They sell Coors by the liter?
Jeezus, people, I know you want to dilute the Stoopid but can’t you take the orthographic discussion elsewhere? It’s way too long as it is.
keep trying to search this thread for ideas and statements related to race (for magellan) and every time I end up killing a hamster. Won’t someone please think of the hamsters?
I read this as phrenology at first.
I… haven’t been following the thread.
Ooh, this article from AlterNet hits it out of the park! “Conservatives’ Hilarious, Doomed Efforts to Be Cool.”
There’s always This:
Well, much like everything English-language related, you’ve got a rule, then a laundry list of amendments to the rules, and then some exceptions for good measure.
“The primary accent is always on the last syllable - except in those N special cases of course, in which case it’s two syllables back. But not for *those *words ! The secondary accent is two syllables before the primary, but not if there’s a…” GAH !
And of course you try to cheat at this thing, ‘cause you know how the word is pronounced anyway. It’s inconSPIcuOUS. Wait a tick, is it INconspiCUOUS ? inconSPICuous ? InCoNSpicuOUS ? Etc… until words have no meaning anymore and you’re left a broken shell of destroyed confidence in your ability to utter a single word in the blasted language.
And since I never could find it in myself to *care *enough about that particular course, I didn’t work at it very much either. So come the finals I basically sprinkled those bastards like green,grocer’s apo,stro’phes’. And that’s the story of how I never got that credit ! 
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I read this as phrenology at first.
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Just how old d’you think I am, man ?! 
Let me run my fingers all over your skull and I’ll tell you.
Hm? No, I’m not a phrenologist, just a highly unusual sort of pervert.
It’s Scott! I like Scott. He’s funny.
Yes, these orthogonal debates are too confusing! There are too many sides!
It’s very “in.”
Alaska GOP candidate destroys copy of Obamacare bill in new ad
First he tries shooting it, then throws it into a wood-chipper.
So long as the gatherings are entirely unofficial, without any hint of administrative favor, and equally encourages other religious views or non-religious views, I have no problem with this. Texas has long had an unfair reputation for intolerance, but the truth is that two different varieties of Baptists often live side by side in relative harmony. In Waco, where I grew up, there were even several Jews, though mostly they were in Temple.
^Alabama, not Alaska
In response to #13770
I always get those two confused.