> I'd much rather let language evolve naturally. Spelling isn't natural though, as there are many humans without writing but practically none without language.

> I'd much rather let language evolve naturally. Spelling isn't natural though, as there are many humans without writing but practically none without language. Writing has always been at the whims of standardisation, whether "officially" so like the French Academy or Sejong did for French and Hangul, or just by convention like Webster did for American English, simplifying the spelling that Oxford had previously promoted.