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		nodata on May 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise of "Logical Punctuation". Simplified English has been around for a while, there's even a Wikipedia language for it: http://simple.wikipedia.org/ iirc Lincoln was a big proponent of it.

hugh3 on May 13, 2011 [–]

And it still hasn't caught on, which probably indicates that it never will.

Though actually, many of the differences between US and proper English spellings come from Webster's attempts to rationalize the English language. It didn't work.

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