• @[email protected]
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    4 hours ago

    Given the fact that that poem is 100 years old, I would have thought that English would have evolved to fix these issues by now. Oh well.

    We need a new language I guess. Maybe it’s time to switch to the most popular language in the world (in terms of number of native speakers): Mandarin Chinese.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 hours ago

      The use of emojis is.slowly converting written language back to hieroglyphics, so your new language is already happening.

    • @NiHaDuncan
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      614 hours ago

      As someone who has studied it, have fun with that. While that poem is an outlier, there’s still a ton of things that not even inflection or context can solve.

    • lad
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      313 hours ago

      Maybe better use second most popular: Spanish, it at least uses same letters (differently though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)