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).

    • unknown1234_5OP
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      115 hours ago

      hell no we’re just used to it. it could definitely be worse but if you look closer you’ll see and kinds of fucked up grammar rules and unnecessary letters.