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English writing can have unpredictable spelling mostly due to imported foreign words (looking at you French!) or inclusion of Old English. imo that's better th
by MrOwnPut 4y ago
English writing can have unpredictable spelling mostly due to imported foreign words (looking at you French!) or inclusion of Old English.
imo that's better than having a whole other system like Katakana to import foreign words.
- pessimizer 4y agoI feel like you just said that English has complicated spelling both because of its borrowed words and its native words. I think this could be shortened to "English has complicated spelling because of the spelling of its words." Or even "English has complicated spelling."
- MrOwnPut 4y agoGP said "unpredictable" spelling, not complex. And I said "Old English". I was saying it's unpredictable if you include Old English spelling and words (which you don't in Simplified English). The remaining unpredictable words are imported foreign words, usually French.
- ickoonite 4y agoThere is no one particular subset of English you can exclude to simplify its spelling. I don’t really know what you classify as Old English, but whatever Simplified English is, it is highly unlikely it excludes Old English as traditionally defined, as the majority of the most commonly used words - italicised here - have such heritage. The spelling of such words is probably not the most troubling part of English orthography anyway.
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