To: varmintman
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.
4 posted on
01/30/2014 8:32:41 PM PST by
Procyon
(Decentralize, degovernmentalize, deregulate, demonopolize, decredentialize, disentitle.)
To: Procyon
The closest you can get to a simpler sounding/spelled language is Spanish or Latin. I'm going to disagree; languages using syllabaries (eg Japanese, Cherokee) tend to be simpler spelling (arguably sounding as well), IMO.
17 posted on
01/30/2014 8:50:53 PM PST by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Procyon
The closest you can get to a simpler sounding/spelled language is Spanish Spare us. All the bilingual subway signs in English and Spanish show me that it takes 50 percent more words to say the same thing.
To: Procyon
The closest you can get to a simpler sounding/spelled language is Spanish or Latin.Quite untrue. German spelling is virtually phonetic. Russian also comes very close.
Regards,
27 posted on
01/30/2014 9:32:11 PM PST by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: Procyon
The closest you can get to a simpler sounding/spelled language is Spanish or Latin. Esperanto was specifically designed to be simple. It is based on Spanish, IIRC.
43 posted on
01/30/2014 11:30:24 PM PST by
Greysard
To: Procyon
53 posted on
01/31/2014 7:51:37 AM PST by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
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