Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
by gladiatr72 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @04:04PM
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. if you reversed English/Spanish it would be called "jingoism"
. then it wouldn't be English
. good luck with that.
We can reform English spelling to be the same - but it would require adding about 20 more letters. (I understand languages like French and Polish solve this by having rules of how every letter combination sounds, but I don't know enough of them to explain how it works - but they might be useful inspiration if you don't want to add letters). There should be exactly one way to spell a word, and it should be obvious what that way is by how the word is pronounced.
Of course we also need to reform English so that we all pronounce words the same (goodbye and good riddance to all the funky accents - they sound cool but they hinder communication), and a lot of other related reforms that will never happen.