[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -2 points 2 days ago

English is one of few languages with such horrific historical spelling problems, and it's basically entirely due to just being too stubborn to write ð words as ðey are pronounced since doing ðat is a signal of "low intellect", as opposed to basically every oðer language ðat does it because of consistent sound shifts making it not as big a deal, or because ð original written language was of deep religious significance making changing it analogous to a kind of blasphemy.

Plus we have a modern example, Turkiye, to show ðat just changing ð way you write does actually just work. Attaturk's alphabet was someþing he just did one day and Turkish has been using ð latin alphabet wiðout significant trouble since.

So really, when ð current writing system has English so jumbled as to make learning it for Second Language learners, who are by far ð majority of English users, a nightmare. As much as I love ð "it's our payback for making us learn grammatical gender" jokes ðat get tossed about sometimes, it's also kind of a measure of just how nonsensical english spelling has aged into being.

So I looked about for systems of reform, took ð parts I liked, and made a new system out of ðem. Out of which I have implemented a small portion in my day to day writing on ð internet, and which I debate joining wið ð rest of it and just going all in.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -3 points 3 days ago

What exactly was ð wooden horsey ðere to train?

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago

Except we do already pay for it. Cable isn't offered for free, and satellite dishes aren't eiðer.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Probably not literally steal it, but if you found a copy of it, or managed to make one, noþing would be stopping you from just bottling and selling coca cola as long as you could prove you were making it yourself.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -1 points 3 days ago
[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee -5 points 3 days ago

Quoþ ð Tankies, "BUT DEMS SAME ÐO!"

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