[Dr. Sivana]

Imagine some of the first words learned, counting words.

Wun, Too, Three, For, Five, Six, Sevin, Ate, Nine, Ten

Besides looking ridiculous, you now have a problem with the complete elimination of homonyms.

Years ago, IBM had a commercial highlighting technology that would allow computers to transcribe spoken text. The sample sentence was,

Write a letter to Mr. Wright right now.

That would be rendered as:

Rite a letter to Mr. Rite rite now.
Ugh.

[null and void]

If your team was victorious, press “won”.
If you want directions, press “to”.
If you are an environmentalist, press “tree”.
If you are in favor, press “for”.
If you are a bee, press “hive”.
If you have more than one ill person, press “sicks”.
If you are Norwegian, press “Sven”.
If you finished your meal, press “ate”.
If you are German and you want to say no, press “nein”.
If you are World War II Japanese fighter pilot, press “Zero”.
If you are an astronomer, press “star”.
If you are British and are ringing for money, press “£”...