Yep.

  For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "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 the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might 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.

  Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl 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 ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

http://www.i18nguy.com/twain.html

▲ dang 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not Mark Twain, but (believe it or not) Dolton Edwards in Astounding Science Fiction, Sept 1946.

"Dolton" was an amusing pseudonym. See this thread from a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23587507

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heikkilevanto 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Some (un?)reliable sources on the Internet claim that it was actually written by a man named M.J. Shields and published as a letter to The Economist in the 1940s

	▲	dang 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, that's covered in the thread I linked to. The Economist letter was in 1971, and contributed wording that made it into the meme later on.

▲ cyberax 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

It actually looks pretty good. It's written for comical effect, but it highlights nicely how _bad_ English orthography is.

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darkwater 10 hours ago | parent [-]

It's basically how Spaniards and Italians would spell English :D

	▲	Izkata an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		A bit of a tangent, this was written by an Italian singer to sound like English without being English: https://vimeo.com/1071644859 Unfortunately the Youtube upload of that performance seems to have been copyright struck in the past couple of months after being up for 13 years...
	▲	jcmontx 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As a native Spanish speaker, I agree

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▲ vp4nkov 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

kinda reminds of dutch