Suppose we suddenly toss out all spelling rules, dictionaries and spelling checkers what will be the results?

We'd probably use the SMS abbreviations with some 'messenger-speak' thrown in... Oh, and your question would look very different!

It wouldn't hurt if English spelling could more closely reflect the pronunciation sometimes, but it would be hard to co-ordinate agreement among all the language user groups around the world.

A good point made about Pre-18th Century English before Johnson tried to standardize spelling, but don't forget; we should always leave room for a living language to grow and evolve - it will anyway - and that has to include the written form too.Suppose we suddenly toss out all spelling rules, dictionaries and spelling checkers what will be the results?
You will never learn to use commas correctly. Basically, I think people will just continue to do things correctly, as that's the way we've been brought up. (At least, that's the way I've been brought up.)
Read Shakespeare, Chaucer, Byron, and any old English stuff you can find on the Internet. See what it was like before there was standard English spelling. Find out how hard it is to tell which word is which. After all, "nae," "naw," and "nye" could all mean "no" or they could mean totally different things.Suppose we suddenly toss out all spelling rules, dictionaries and spelling checkers what will be the results?
i dunt sea whare dat wud bee ene kend of poblum dun't uz dem ene wayz.
total chaos and loss of common senseSuppose we suddenly toss out all spelling rules, dictionaries and spelling checkers what will be the results?
I personally wouldn't do anything differently.
It would look like most of the questions on Yahoo...no change.
chat rooms
Some people seem to have done this already.



But wee knead roolz to konvay our ideaz and komunikate proply wiv eech uva.
Chaos would be the result.
Pretty much what you see on Yahoo q%26amp;a on any given day!
We become dumb-asses.
The "Royalty" category would burgeon????
People on this site will still be complaining about others' spelling, with nothing to back it up.