> We use the word "the" a lot in English. It would make sense to just replace it with a single character. Indeed the Shavian alphabet [1] has a single characte

> We use the word "the" a lot in English. It would make sense to just replace it with a single character. Indeed the Shavian alphabet [1] has a single character abbreviation for "the" (should have been a th-e digraph). Of course, the same goes to the failure of Shavian and other reforms. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet