A group of small activists gathered outside the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C to protest our so called nonsensical American spelling this past friday. They think that American spelling is too hard and "want to spell what they mean and mean what they spell," if that even makes sense. For example, "you" would be spelled "yoo" or "enough" would be "enuf" and "fruit" would be "froot". Haha really? I think the education of monkey's would become harder than in American pre-schools if we started this. It's like text messaging but in human form, sooner or later (or i should say "l8r"), we are all going to write one letter words or just have codes instead. And they're doing it in front of a National Spelling Bee because they want to make spelling bee's easier? Then what is the point of a spelling bee? American English is a mix of other languages like Latin, Germanic, and Romanian ...right? I think this is what makes our language so great! Language is an art, art is beauty and of course art is not easy. Do people really want to throw away the history of our language and destroy the beauty of it just because it is a little to hard to spell? I guess so. And the funniest part is that most of these protest-ers are not foreigners trying to learn English but they are American's whose native tongue is ENGLISH!
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