Social Hacking

It's been a long week, too long.. but it's been interesting. I am currently taking a course that is called språkteknologi (language-technology) where we analyze the Swedish language. We look at spelling, grammar, and such. However, the interesting part is what makes this so hard.
You have probably used Word's spellcheck (or openoffice) and one can quickly realize that it's not very good. Well it has gotten a lot better during the last years but it still has a long way to go. The correction of spelling of single words is actually quite good, but looking at spelling in a context it's still bad. For example if I write “where” instead of “were” the spell check wouldn't complain. So the social hacking point I wanted to make out of this is all the unnecessary information we use when we speak. This information makes it harder for the spell check and does not really add any value to the text.
Someone could argue that these extra words give the text or speak extra volume, or makes it easier to understand. However, I believe that the world would be a better place without all these synonyms and litter in our speech and writing.
Let me give an example: We have the sentence: “I am going to the store.” Wouldn't you be able to understand me if I just said “me go store”?.
By only changing the order of the words I could make it into a question: "go me store" ("Should I go to the store?")
English might be the best language to make optimal.

However, as a good social hacker you need to be able to handle your language. You need to be able to express yourself both in text and speech. For now it does not look like there ever even is going to be an attempt of making a optimal. But wouldn't it be nice?

Random side note; the spell checker marked “spellcheck” as misspelled, it wants to change it to “spell check”, even though it says “Spellcheck..” in the tools menu.