Show English Language Burdened By Middle Ages Baggage LINCOLN NEB According to Dr Joseph E. E Alexis of ot the Uni Uni- University University University of Nebraska the written English language is burdened by bythe bythe bythe the terrible baggage of the mid mid- middle middle dle die ages He believes President Truman should appoint a commission to bring some sanity into written English adjusting Its Chaucer- Chaucer like spelling to the reality of pres pres- present present present ent day pronunciation President Theodore Roosevelt worked for such an English language lan lan- language language guage academy the Nebraska pro pro- professor professor professor fessor said and Andrew Carnegie also tried to bring it into being But now he said public opinion is ripe for a change The German Swedish Spanish Russian and French peoples all aU Have maintained academics academies to keep their written languages in step with the spoken word Alexis said If U English were written as it is pronounced more foreign schools would offer It to their students ac ac- according according ac- ac according cording to Alexis A l I e x I s. s Immigrants would find it immeasurably easier to learn he said since it would be he- become become come the simplest language in the world American children could c o 0 u l I d go through school In two less years if it they didn't have to learn Jeam to spell I fl J |