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An English college professor suggests that we abandon standard spelling and allow “varient” spellings in the face of abysmal “orthografi.”
Spelling “truely atrosious,” says academic

LONDON (Reuters) – Embaressed by yor spelling? Never you mind.
Fed up with his students’ complete inability to spell common English correctly, a British academic has suggested it may be time to accept “variant spellings” as legitimate.
Rather than grammarians getting in a huff about “argument” being spelled “arguement” or “opportunity” as “opertunity,” why not accept anything that’s phonetically (fonetickly anyone?) correct as long as it can be understood?
“University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell.”
To kickstart his proposal, Smith suggested 10 common misspellings that should immediately be accepted into the pantheon of variants, including “ignor,” “occured,” “thier,” “truely,” “speach” and “twelth” (it should be “twelfth”).