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how would you simplify English? (kbin.earth)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/languages

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hypothetically, let's say you were tasked with simplifying the English language. how would you go about doing that, and why?

to start with an easy one, the first thing I would do is eliminate silent letters from all words and make it so no letters share sounds. for example, example would become exampel. then, because x would no longer be around or at least wouldn't have that sound, ekzampel. I would also consider eliminating mulit-letter sounds like ch, and replacing them with single characters (probably the ones that got removed).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remove the letter “c”.

replace “ph” with “f”.

How would you differentiate face and phase?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

fase and faze. of course faze is already a word, so we'd have to come up with something for that too. I think it'd be fine to have it phase and faze spelt the same since they already sound the same. at least then it would be easier to spell correctly.