Re: Brazil embraces spelling reforms

As a child, I was told to listen carefully and if it took
more time to say the vowel then it was to be written as long vowel.

Each and every vowel?

What about consonants? For which pais of consonants you were asked to
listen carefully and then decide on what basis to identify it as one
against the other?

I can't make any meaning out of the question. I thought this was
about vowels.

I am sure this will work today as well, at least in majority of
cases.  The fact that people make mistakes does not seem to be a good
reason to stop teaching what is correct.  Correctness of spelling has
nothing to do with Sanskrit worship.  There are irregularity in
English spellings as well, more so with foreign words.  That has not
meant that foreign words can be officially spelt whatever way the
writer is comfortable with, but people do it anyway.

It is when the teachers want to take it easy that learning becomes
difficult.  When dealing with literacy at the basic level, correctness
of spelling was never a priority AFAIK.
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