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zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Right? Like “th” is one of the least ambiguous, most consistent letter groupings in English, a new letter for it doesn’t solve anything, and using the thorn character is actively worse for people with dyslexia. Let’s come up with a way to disambiguate soft-c vs. hard-c sounds instead, or make “ei”/“ie” more consistent.

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zeca@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Language evolution is not so much directed by utility, is it?

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- zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Not historically, no, which is part of the reason why English’s spelling “rules” are the way they are
  
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JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Maybe we can develop our own Lemmy update to written English?

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- SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  No. No. No no no no no no.
  
  This is how we got Esperanto. DO YOU WANT THAT? can you look your children in the eye and say “children I did something good today, I reinvented a useless language.” CAN YOU DO THAT‽
  
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  - JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Welp, that attitude is why the written portion of English hasn’t updated in a long time and is why it’s so bad. Also, English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, wild to call it useless lol.
    
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