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Reads like Mark Twain’s short piece “A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling”

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html

[edit] Maybe Twain, anyway. The attribution is dubious, but common.




>Reads like Mark Twain’s short piece “A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling”

Which is a gem, regardless of authorship. Another related bit associated with Twain is:

“whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”[0]

Which, as a native English speaker who learned German, I find both amusing and (mostly) correct.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/115614-whenever-the-literar...

Edit: Added source reference link.




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