Uh. No.
It already is.
Worse than the spelling is that English has too many phonemes and homonyms. The closest you can get to a simpler sounding/spelled language is Spanish or Latin.
And after generations are taught the simplified spelling will they be able to read older books or will they be lost to the general culture or treated as mere quaint poems and prose like Chaucer’s works?
I don’t get it. Why would we need letters for sounds that don’t exist in English (Spanish N~, trilling R, etc.)? None of the major languages have separate letters for trilling Rs and English-style Rs.
I have actually thought about this situation.
However, I prefer devising new characters. I hate those extra symbols. Think of a keyboard. You might as well make new characters as add keys for all the different “accents” on extant letters.
We have a wonderful flexible language, but the “diversity” that ultimately molded it is also what causes all the confusion. Far too many influences that contradict each other.
I’m with you! Get rid of ‘ph’ spelling for ‘f’ sounds! For that matter, why is there a ‘ck’ spelling when the sound is pure ‘k’.
We should modernize the language!
No ə?
It pretty much is already
maybee thay need to spel thingz fonticalli. due yung peepol nott due that alredi wen thay teckst on thayr i-fonez? (/sarc)
sorry, zot the idea.
Another liberal twit, showing his utter disdain and hatred for one of the key foundation blocks of western culture.
Well, Mr. Fabrique. I think you're a sick joke. How do you like that?
Not this again. In the 70s some ‘smart guy’ was pushing his system
Some languages work with less letters. Less letters to learn. Less letters to remember. Less letters to cause spelling mistrakes. Let’s drop the letter “O”. Will improve our English (and immensely improve our politics).
English is NOT broken. It does NOT need fixing. If the Euros want to be cool, then do Ebonics to be with it and hip. (sarcasm off)
>>It should be utterly unambiguous and 100% phonetic. That means that if you hear a word spoken you know how to spell it and, if you see a word written, you know how to pronounce it other than for the question of which syllable if any is stressed.
And when dialects are added in... this “new” system self-destructs (think of listening to some inbred Boston native pronounce “park the car” as /pahk da cah/ . Standard orthography was put in place precisely to avoid all the duplicate spellings generated by dialects.
Would you rather learn 40,000 unique Chinese characters? I’ll keep my English just the way it is.
Or people can just learn English. Oh, wait, that requires work.