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> This is why I'm a huge supporter of a radical English spelling reform. That has already happened, which is part of how we got into this mess. See isle vs is
by com2kid 3y ago
> This is why I'm a huge supporter of a radical English spelling reform.
That has already happened, which is part of how we got into this mess.
See isle vs island.
IMHO The only real solution is to invent a time machine and keep England from getting conquered again and again and again. If you keep mashing languages together you are bound to get a mess.
- pythonguython 3y agoEvery language has had spelling reforms. Orthographies would certainly be worse if we never had spelling reforms. Some have just worked out better than others
- esafak 3y agoThis also reflects Britain's hands-off approach to language. If desired, the government could establish a council to police the language like the French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise This is how Turkey ended up with its shallow orthography: the government designed a new alphabet. Before that they used Arabic.