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No, modern English would have been better off taking, uh, almost any other European language's spelling system.
by raincole 3y ago
No, modern English would have been better off taking, uh, almost any other European language's spelling system.
- bluGill 3y agoNo other language has exactly the same systems of sounds and so we wouldn't really be better off. Now the ideas could fit. We could add 30 more letters and then assign each letter a unique sound. We could make longer sequences of letters be one sound and each sound have one unique sequence of letters. We could adopt some accents on each letter to indicate which sound it represents. (Those are the 3 answers I know of from Europe, though they are sometiems combined. There may be other options I don't know of) however it still needs to be unique to English. Though we could agree with the other language on where to start and add sounds that they agree.to use out changes if they ever adopt.