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We all went to school, we all invested big amounts of learning time, big amounts of pliant, childlike brain time in dictation, in the memorization of spelling rules filled, nevertheless, with exceptions.

We were told in many ways, implicitly and explicitly, that in spelling, something fundamental to our upbringing was at stake.

In fact, they didn't ask themselves a previous question: What is the purpose of spelling?

What do we need spelling for?

We use spelling to unify the way we write, so we can all write the same way, making it easier for us to understand when we read to each other.

But unlike in other aspects of language such as punctuation, in spelling, there's no individual expression involved.

With punctuation, I can impose a particular rhythm to what I am writing, but not with spelling.

When it comes to spelling, it's either wrong or right, according to whether it conforms or not to the current rules.

But then, wouldn't it be more sensible to simplify the current rules so it would be easier to teach, learn and use spelling correctly?

Wouldn't it be more sensible to simplify the current rules so that all the time we devote today to teaching spelling, we could devote to other language issues whose complexities do, in fact, deserve the time and effort?

What I propose is not to abolish spelling, and have everyone write however they want.

But I also find it fundamental that those common criteria be as simple as possible, especially because if we simplify our spelling, we're not leveling it down; when spelling is simplified, the quality of the language doesn't suffer at all.

Earlier, I mentioned this slightly thoughtless insistence with which teachers pester and pester us over spelling.

In our society, spelling serves as an index of privilege, separating the cultured from the brute, the educated from the ignorant, independent of the content that's being written.

One can become an object of public ridicule because of a misplaced B. Therefore, in this context, of course, it makes sense to dedicate all this time to spelling.

But we shouldn't forget that throughout the history of our language, it has always been teachers or people involved in the early learning of language who promoted spelling reforms, who realized that in our spelling there was often an obstacle to the transmission of knowledge.

In our case, for example, Sarmiento, together with Andrés Bello, spearheaded the biggest spelling reform to take place in the Spanish language: the mid-19th century Chilean reform.

Then, why not take over the task of those teachers and start making progress in our spelling?

The Royal Spanish Academy, all of language academies, also believes that spelling should be progressively modified; that language is linked to history, tradition and custom, but that at the same time, it is a practical everyday tool and that sometimes this attachment to history, tradition and custom becomes an obstacle for its current usage.

It is less true on the grammatical level, and I would almost say it is not true for the spelling level, that has historically changed from the top down.

And in these social networks, for the first time, we're seeing innovative uses of spelling on a large scale, where even more-than-educated people with impeccable spelling, when using social networks, behave a lot like the majority of users of social networks behave.

There will be those who'll say that if we simplify spelling we'll lose etymology.

Strictly speaking, if we wanted to preserve etymology, it would go beyond just spelling.

With simplified spelling, we would normalize etymology in the same place we do now: in etymological dictionaries.

A second objection will come from those who say: "If we simplify spelling, we'll stop distinguishing between words that differ in just one letter."

I was brought up like this, I got used to doing it this way, when I read a written word in simplified spelling, my eyes hurt."

The success of every spelling reform that affects deeply rooted habits lies in caution, agreement, gradualism and tolerance.

So I believe that we must reach an agreement, that academies must reach an agreement, and purge from our spelling rules all the habits we practice just for the sake of tradition, even if they are useless now.

I really loved this idea, and I somehow was not focused on the idea that librarians as a class are sort of interested in spelling and I don't know.

But sometimes cleverness is more important than spelling, and I thought this would be one of those instances.

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