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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by whatsstolat on Sunday May 27, 2018 @06:05PM (#17169344)
Move to a phonetic alphabet. E.g. Arabic.
Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by posterboy on Sunday May 27, 2018 @07:06PM (#17169620)
We could also just add accents, diacrits to exhaustion to englissh letters. Without that in arabic you couldn't even tell /a/, /e/, /i/ apart, they are all aleph in word initial position. Our orthographie is phine, your pronnuntzashun is just lazy
Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by kimmk on Monday May 28, 2018 @05:02AM (#17171392)
You can write phonetically on the Latin alphabet perfectly fine, for example Finnish does so. In the case of English, its a matter of standardizing the pronunciation of characters (considering it requires every English speaker to essentially learn to write/read again, just changing the alphabet to Arabic is almost easier).