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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by tivert on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:45PM (#18869254)
> Sure, English has pretty horrible orthography, arguably the worst among alphabetic languages (though it's not that easy to reform, either, see eg. [1]).

English orthography, summed up, is: all the orthographies from all the languages from all the time periods cobbled together into a monster.

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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by FabHK on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:53PM (#18869333)
Nicely put.
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