"Eether wae, the consept has yet to capcher th publix imajinaeshun."

The last two nights have been really exciting -- the Fourth of July was awesome. Monday, I watched Oshkosh's fireworks (impressive, though someone got stabbed ...), and yesterday, I went to see Menasha's and Neenah's fireworks. Yes, three fireworks shows in two days. My life really is that crazy.

I'm pretty sure my fireworks looked just like your fireworks, though, so ... moving along.

An important issue has come up. Well, important if your blog's address is "You spelled that wrong." People are petitioning to throw out the spelling of English words, and just have everyone rite feneticlee* (write phonetically). Will it catch on? I don't think so. Apparently, this has been going on since Roosevelt or something.

I know when I text message, I write in shortned versions, using "rite," "nite," and "lol." But I don't see how throwing out "right," "night," and "laugh out loud" will make us better readers when we're not typing with the numerical keys on a cell phone.

Plus, think of all the marketing people who'd be out of jobs. They make entire careers out of coming up with shortened words -- think donut, drive-thrus, and other "-ough"-less words. What would they have to do then? Probably come up with more complicated ways to spell things. "Hey, remember when we used to spell 'moovey' like 'movie'? Let's call it 'MOO-vie,' get a cow spokesanimal, and hyphenate at odd parts of sentences. Come on, we'll sell MILLIONS. Make that MIL-LIONS."

It's also worth noting that if you read that story at the above link, you will want to punch the writer about six paragraphs into it: "Eether wae, the consept has yet to capcher th publix imajinaeshun." Stop it. It's not cute, reporter. It's just hard to read. And she does it throughout the entire story.

See? If we throw away old spelling rules, we'll see crime increase, most notably punching-of-reporters-in-the-face crimes. Hardly logical.