On: The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".

[guelo]

Well if we're going to start making English logical we have a lot of work to do.

[nodata → guelo]

Simplified English has been around for a while, there's even a Wikipedia language for it: http://simple.wikipedia.org/

iirc Lincoln was a big proponent of it.

[hugh3 → nodata]

And it still hasn't caught on, which probably indicates that it never will.

Though actually, many of the differences between US and proper English spellings come from Webster's attempts to rationalize the English language. It didn't work.