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How a Book is Born
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How a Book is Born

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Best book ever, or best book EVER?
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Best book ever, or best book EVER?

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Catherine models our bookmark!
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Catherine models our bookmark!

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LeBron James reads The Hunger Games in the locker room!
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LeBron James reads The Hunger Games in the locker room!

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Wow… I can’t believe how much of this is recent fiction! ^LB
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Wow… I can’t believe how much of this is recent fiction! ^LB

Source: flavorwire.com

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For example, in Year 1, that useless letter ‘c’ would be dropped to be replased by either ‘k’ or ‘s’, and likewise ‘x’ would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which ‘c’ would be retained would be in the ‘ch’ formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might well reform ‘w’ spelling, so that ‘which’ and ‘one’ would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish ‘y’, replasing it with ‘i’, and Iear 4 might fiks the ‘g/j’ anomali wonse and for all.

Jeneralli, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear, with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing the vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Ier 15 or sou, it wud fainali be posible tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez ‘c’, ‘y’ and ‘x’ — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais ‘ch’, ‘sh’ and ‘th’ rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers of orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. Haweve, sins xe Wely, xe Airiy, and xe Skots du not spik Ingliy, xei wud hev to hev a speling siutd tu xer oun lengwij. Xei kud, haweve, orlweiz lern Ingliy az a sekond lengwij at skuul!

Iorz feixfuli,

-M. J. Shields (aka M. J. Yilz)  

What English would look like if it were standardized! Can you decode it? (See a translation here.)

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The Lorax's Literary Mixtape!

The Lorax! What do you think?

(Big Yellow Taxi was the gimmie here! ^LB)

(Nope, that was Idioteque! ^KE!)

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What?? A signed copy of @neilhimself’s ‘Death: The High Cost of Living.’ Signed by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean!
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What?? A signed copy of @neilhimself’s ‘Death: The High Cost of Living.’ Signed by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean!

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Some great Gaiman donations today! Signed Anansi Boys!
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Some great Gaiman donations today! Signed Anansi Boys!

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Found in the donation bin today. I don’t think Coraline wrote this note.
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Found in the donation bin today. I don’t think Coraline wrote this note.

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