• Kennystillalive@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    In English extra letters could solve a problem as many letters are pronounced differently depending on context making it not very intuitive to spell some words.

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      1 day ago

      That would be kind of going against language’s natural evolution. Many words used to be spelled with way more letters than they are today.

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        24 hours ago

        That would be kind of going against language’s natural evolution.

        If you can live with horrible changes like million-milliard-billion-biliard changed to million-billion-trillion-quadrillion you can do actually convenient changes.

        Every other language except English does it the old way. And translating one system to another is a garbage experience