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Anothr putenshol prablim iz thuh [[Eternal English|Eetrnal Eenglish]] ishu -- if yor stori is set thri thouznd yirz in the fewchur, won myt expekt that the langwij had chanjd ''mor'' then just in a fiw of the spelings.
This trohp iz waer speling riform iz usd az a wey of shoawyng that the stori iz set in a diferent tym. It dosnt covr [[Real Life|Reel Lyf]] [
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Another potential problem is the [[Eternal English]] issue -- if your story is set three thousand years in the future, one might expect that the language had changed ''more'' than just in a few of the spellings.
This trope is where spelling reform is used as a way of showing that the story is set in a different time. It doesn't cover [[Real Life]] [
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* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' story "The Invisible Enemy", set in the 51st century, features "Egsit" signs among other examples of variant spelling.
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* "Meihem in ce Klasrum", a story by Dolton Edwards published in the classic SF anthology ''Treasury of Great Science Fiction'' (ed. Anthony Boucher) is reminiscent of the Twain example, except that by taking longer and letting you get used to each change in turn, it leaves you at the end reading what looks like pure gibberish with little effort.
* Almost any word that isn't an obscenity is spelled wrong in ''[[Idiocracy]]'' to demonstrate how much English has deteriorated.
* In the final chapters of ''Gradisil'', not only does the spelling change but the [
* In the [[Time Travel]] story of ''[[Blake and Mortimer]]'', Mortimer discovers an apocalyptic future where civilization has fallen, the phonetic spellings he encounters are explained to have helped the downfall.
* In the ''[[Safehold]]'' novels, most personal names have gone through this after nine hundred years of lingual shift. Not an unrealistic assumption.
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