> honestly, the spelling's not that bad No, spelling is really bad and pronunciations are far worse! Pronunciations are just absurd. As a non-native English s

> honestly, the spelling's not that bad No, spelling is really bad and pronunciations are far worse! Pronunciations are just absurd. As a non-native English speaker, with close to native fluency in written English and slightly (or maybe quite) worse in its spoken form, I do understand the importance of Engish as a universal language, esp. in today's world, but fixing its spelling and pronunciations would really be helpful. I find it strange that there are no steps towards it, or if there are maybe I am not aware of that. I mean there is no damn reason to pronounce beard and heard[1] differently unless of course because it's just supposed to be so. And did we really had to say creature and create[2] this distinctly? 1. http://www.etni.org.il/farside/funpoem.htm http://www.etni.org.il/farside/funpoem.htm 2. http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/stuff/english-pronunciation.html http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/stuff/english-pronunciation...