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0 pointsDiogenesKynikos1mo ago0 comments

Define "worked."

You're proposing to make reading just as difficult as understanding every other dialect of spoken English - something even most native speakers have difficulty with.

Your proposal would also eliminate whole-word recognition, which is what makes reading fast. It would slow us all down to the speed of young children just learning to sound out the letters.

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withinboredom1mo ago

Right. Because everyone gets confused when you write behavior instead of behaviour or license/licence or analyze/analyse. It’s so confusing that there are already different ways to spell the same thing.

American English isn’t the only spelling of English.

DiogenesKynikosOP1mo ago

There are exactly two ways to write license. What you're proposing is that there should be 20 different ways to write it, depending on what particular dialect of English you speak.

withinboredom1mo ago

Congrats. You just discovered how new languages get created!

English is probably overdue on that, tbh.

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0 pointsDiogenesKynikos1mo ago0 comments

Define "worked."

You're proposing to make reading just as difficult as understanding every other dialect of spoken English - something even most native speakers have difficulty with.

Your proposal would also eliminate whole-word recognition, which is what makes reading fast. It would slow us all down to the speed of young children just learning to sound out the letters.

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withinboredom1mo ago

American English isn’t the only spelling of English.

DiogenesKynikosOP1mo ago

There are exactly two ways to write license. What you're proposing is that there should be 20 different ways to write it, depending on what particular dialect of English you speak.

withinboredom1mo ago

Congrats. You just discovered how new languages get created!

English is probably overdue on that, tbh.

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