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#1: Cecily (TheLorax) on Dec 2, 2009

I don't understand all the open space. Why not just make a smaller grid? It doesn't make it any harder or prettier, it just takes longer to finish.

i like how you speak english phonetically hanna, i feel like i can hear your accent when i read your text. what is your native language?

igk probebly like the pordireakin aent (lol im not very good at spelling)

LOL at #3!!!
At least this puzzle looked like something recognizable.

She said: "I don't know, probably like Puerto rican, ant"

Don't worry, Hanna. The great thing about English is that you don't have to spell it right for people to know what you're saying (well not snobby people anyways) :D

I thought it was "probably like the Puerto Rican accent" but Ant would also work. :)

My daughters spell phonetically and even though I know what they are writing I have to tell them it is spelled wrong. I agree with my girls. Words should be spelled the way they sound.

But everyone hears them differently. I agree English should be easier than it is, but take this misunderstanding for example. One person may phonetically spell the word jersey as jerzee, another may write jirsy, and yet another may think it ought to be jurzii. Personally, I think the last looks best to me, but others out there may say I'm way off with all of them. It really depends. But I sey Inglish shuud start bai getting rid ov c's, q's, and x's. Keep silent g's, though; they are gnarly.

I read a cute little article about that, years ago, how soft C should be replaced with S, and hard C replaced with K, and other minor changes. Then they gave an example of all the changes, and the resulting sentences looked remarkably like German. :)

That makes sense. English is a mix of mostly Germanic languages and some Latin-based languages. We get the soft c from Latin, so if you take that out, what do you have left?

Even still, I love English, despite all of the useless rules and whatnot. It is hard to learn, but fun to master if you like languages. And all of my favorite puns work best in English! That might change if English changed! I've made up my mind. Let's keep English the loveable Frankensteinian hodgepodge that it is. Who's with me?

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