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Preserving words history is far from stupid. Spellings of words bear meaning. Ethymology is extremely important to understand your own language, and how it rela
by sheepdestroyer 5y ago
Preserving words history is far from stupid.
Spellings of words bear meaning. Ethymology is extremely important to understand your own language, and how it relates to others. If we were to write every languages strictly phonetically, some would lose more than just etymology, but would even become a lot less understandable.
- kragen 5y agoWhile not, strictly speaking, incorrect (and I certainly do enjoy etymology) this reasoning disregards the tradeoffs; it leads to https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2473 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2473.