I really like languages whose phoneticism is reinforced through series of orthogtaphic reforms, because it gives them an aspect of regularity and predictability

I really like languages whose phoneticism is reinforced through series of orthogtaphic reforms, because it gives them an aspect of regularity and predictability that is rare in non-written aspects of natural languages, since natural languages are fundamentally social and evolve over time. But I also love the etymological richness of languages like English where little or no attempt is made to truncate the visible histories of loan words by normalizing their spellings (or pronunciation or grammar, for that matter— in English, spellings and pronunciations of words that are identical or similar to their original, foreign ones usually remain acceptable even as more Anglicized forms naturally develop alongside them). There's something magical about how rich the English language is with historical traces, even to foreign lands and tongues. If you're attentive to spelling, English's orthographic conservatism also exposes the relationships between words to you in a way that spelling reforms can obscure. It lets us recycle words, too, so that words of ultimately identical roots (and sometimes grammatical role, too) come to bear different shades of meaning and connotation that reflect their histories. For better and for worse, words get to have a kind of 'path dependence' in English in this way.