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From: dmpw@water.net (MinniePearl's Dog)
Subject: simplified spelling
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:53:19 GMT
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I thought of another organization devoted to simplified spelling: the
American public school system.  My children are treated daily to a
tolerance for mispelling and misuse of the language that simply did not
exist when I was in elementary school.  This tolerance combined with
commercial television really makes the efforts of such organizations
redundant, if not rediculous.

Here in Florida, the children have invented a new form of the verb "to have",
or should I say, "to got". For the third person singular, the accepted
schoolkid usage is "he gots." 
 Can you guess what the third person plural is?
That's correct: "they got". 
 And for a bonus point, how about the past tense, third person singular
and plural?
Correct again: "he/they gotsed"
I really have no problem with this usage. In fact, I applaud the children
of Florida for a construction that actually follows the traditional
grammatical rules for creating these person and tense forms! They don't
need any obsessive corps of pedants to tell them how to use the language!

-- 
david mcgrath (dmpw@water.net)
