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Worked for thousands of years with other phonetic written languages. Words change spelling over time, instead of pronounciation drifting without the spelling ch
by withinboredom 8mo ago
Worked for thousands of years with other phonetic written languages. Words change spelling over time, instead of pronounciation drifting without the spelling changing.
- DiogenesKynikos 8mo agoDefine "worked." You're proposing to make reading just as difficult as understanding every other dialect of spoken English - something even most native speakers have difficulty with. Your proposal would also eliminate whole-word recognition, which is what makes reading fast. It would slow us all down to the speed of young children just learning to sound out the letters.
- withinboredom 8mo agoRight. Because everyone gets confused when you write behavior instead of behaviour or license/licence or analyze/analyse. It’s so confusing that there are already different ways to spell the same thing. American English isn’t the only spelling of English.
- DiogenesKynikos 8mo agoThere are exactly two ways to write license. What you're proposing is that there should be 20 different ways to write it, depending on what particular dialect of English you speak.
- withinboredom 8mo agoCongrats. You just discovered how new languages get created! English is probably overdue on that, tbh.