| ▲ | com2kid a day ago | |
Controversial hot take: Simplify the orthography to make it phonic, and then people spell words however they are pronounced in their local dialect. | ||
| ▲ | roryirvine 19 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Much of the variation between accents lies in the unstressed vowels. We could simply omit those, treating the alphabet more as a semi-abugida. You'd end up with something pretty close to early 2000s txtspk, so it might actually be a surprisingly easy conversion for many people. | ||