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Previous work in this area: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.html

• xphung 8mo ago
  It seems to me Mark Twain was trying to show that (if taken to an extreme) a 'new' English would be unrecognisable and unreadable - essentially a foreign language. This is not the goal of English 2.0, which aims to be fully readable for current English speakers, but also phonetically pure at the same time. As an example, the following is perfectly readable by anyone who knows English 1.0, but it has better phonetic purity than current English, in that 'ae' is always Long A (and hence distinguished from Short A, which is simply 'a'), and 'owne' is a distinct tetragraph (having the diphthong OW sound), to distinguish it from the 'ow' digraph (which is always the Long O sound): 'the quick browne fox jumped over the laezy dog'.