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Hey! Native speaker here. If we:
reformed the spelling
stopped the locals from coming out with any deranged shite that they liked the sound of and made them follow some rules instead
…then it would be a perfectly usable language, thank you.
“Reform the spelling” how would you go about that?
“Refom de speling” hou wud ju go abaut dat?
(Croatian way - write what you hear)
Starting to look like dutch
How about the Finnish version:
“Reform te spelling” hau vuud juu gou abaut tät?
Now you have (at least) two different pronunciations of the letter t, while “would” and “you” now suddenly contain a long vowel?
If you think American English is bad, you should see British English.
And before any Brits get their panties in a twist: no, all the unnecessary additions of “u” aren’t original. You all did that after the American Revolution. You collectively had such a temper tantrum over losing a colony that you butchered your own language. Congratulations.
Which means you’re putting non-rhotic accents first and you’d erase the “th” sound completely?
I am not sure but probably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996
So you wanna introduce ß into English?
Spaß bei Scherz, this reform changed one rule in German orthography so that it is slightly more phonetic (it’s still considered non-phonetic) and it still caused a constitutional challenge.
I like the change, but even today, 30 years later, you can find people who have not changed their spelling habits.
If we reform English at this pace, sound changes will outrace us.