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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by myohmy on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:07PM (#27224820)
Honestly we need the same for English.
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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by henvic on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:21PM (#27228156)
No. Just let the language naturally evolve. This "agreement" was an awful thing forced down by political forces.

Context: I'm Brazilian and during high school I studied Portuguese "one official version behind". It had more rules, but the language itself was way nicer, and people used to write more close to it, than nowadays.

It's better to have a few mistakes due to some archaic rules than to force everything to be sterile and complicate how you pronounce things IMHO

Just let people evolve the language naturally instead...

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by pessimizer on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:10PM (#27228056)
No, our orthography is terrible. We should let it slip towards rationality in any of the tiny ways it tries.
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