From a hand-writing perspective, I’m a big fan of syllabaries. But when you have to use a keyboard, an alphabet is pretty damn good. English could easily switch to quasi phonetic spelling by repurposing redundant consonants and adding accents to voewls.
Qe íntréstíng qíng úbáüt ít ís qat ít’s stíl kind úf légíbl evn íf I don’t eksplan háw ít wïrks.
You do have to be judicious about which diacritics you use, though, otherwise it goes back to being hellish to type.
Like we already have some loaned words with ´ and ` on them, and it gets so confusing to remember which one to use that people just end up typing “cafe” and “puree”
For sure, and phonetic spelling would mean either everyone types in their own accent and reading becomes harder, or everyone agrees on a phonetic spelling and we solved basically nothing.
“My language so superior, we have to use multiple letters to represent completely different sounds”
CHuckle at THat, SHithead
From a hand-writing perspective, I’m a big fan of syllabaries. But when you have to use a keyboard, an alphabet is pretty damn good. English could easily switch to quasi phonetic spelling by repurposing redundant consonants and adding accents to voewls.
Qe íntréstíng qíng úbáüt ít ís qat ít’s stíl kind úf légíbl evn íf I don’t eksplan háw ít wïrks.
It’ll never happen though.
You do have to be judicious about which diacritics you use, though, otherwise it goes back to being hellish to type.
Like we already have some loaned words with ´ and ` on them, and it gets so confusing to remember which one to use that people just end up typing “cafe” and “puree”
For sure, and phonetic spelling would mean either everyone types in their own accent and reading becomes harder, or everyone agrees on a phonetic spelling and we solved basically nothing.