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I think a totally new alphabet would be more easily accepted by people than a Latin spelling reform, which would see a ton of backlash around the uncanny valley
by olah_1 5y ago
I think a totally new alphabet would be more easily accepted by people than a Latin spelling reform, which would see a ton of backlash around the uncanny valley and social stigmas.
A new alphabet (like Hangul), could take a long time to adopt fully though, and there’s nothing wrong with that imo.
- tsimionescu 5y agoAdopting a new alphabet has enormous costs, and it's very hard to imagine they can be outweighed by the benefits (unless perhaps you're adopting a different existing popular alphabet - probably Russian cyrilic or some Indian script being the only options, though perhaps a syllabary such as Hiragana would also be an option). The cost I'm talking about is losing the ability to read the vast amount of text that has been already written in the current alphabet. For the Latin alphabet in particular, which is by far the most used writing system in history, losing access to all text produced anywhere in Europe, the Americas and most of Africa for the last few hundred years or so would be very hard to make up for.
- olah_1 5y agoAgain, I refer you to the story of Hangul. If you think I’m suggesting simply flipping a switch overnight, you insult my intelligence…