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The most common simplification is spelling reform, but inflection, syntax, vocabulary and word formation can also be targets for simplification. For example, in English, there are many prefixes which mean "the opposite of", e.g. un-, in-, a(n)-, dis-, and de-. A language reform might propose to replace the redundant prefixes with one, such as un-.
Spelling reforms are attempts to regularise English spelling, whether by enforcing a regular set of rules, or by replacing the basic English alphabet with a new one. English spelling reforms include: Using the basic English alphabet: Cut Spelling; Handbook of Simplified Spelling; Regularized Inglish; SoundSpel; SR1 (Spelling Reform step 1)
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In current English, puritan often means "against pleasure". In such usage, hedonism and puritanism are antonyms. [13] William Shakespeare described the vain, pompous killjoy Malvolio in Twelfth Night as "a kind of Puritan". [14] H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2] When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings ...
The official Reform X account also posted an image that it said included a “screenshot of our internal membership numbers”, which appeared to show figures at more than 134,000.
Reform UK now has more members than the Conservative Party, its leader Nigel Farage has said. A digital tracker on Reform's website shows its membership numbers have overtaken the 131,680 figure ...
For example, the historical Reform Party of Canada advocated structural changes to government to counter what they believed was the disenfranchisement of Western Canadians. [11] Some social democratic parties such as the aforementioned Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Canadian New Democratic Party are still considered to be reformist ...