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Sol
Junior Chimp
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« on: April 08, 2015, 09:02:28 PM »

Yess, uvv corse, like most lingwists.  Fore wunn, itt woodd deecrees dhuh prevulens uvv dislekkseea.

No, but really, dyslexia is much more rare of a diagnosis in countries that have a sensible orthography.  There's no reason why English should have to struggle with a terrible system that we've perpetuated for no apparent reason when we could at the very least get rid of "ough" and disambiguate the two types of "th" Sad

Really? I thought it was the other way around--I know many dyslexics have a much easier time reading Chinese characters than the Latin Alphabet at least.

Anyway, yeah, English spelling reform is a pretty dumb idea. However, that being said, people should be at least taught basic IPA. There's nothing I hate more than the horrible crap you see in dictionaries that try to spell out things using some awful "spelling pronounciation" crap.

Also, even ignoring dialectical variation, reformed English vowels would be extremely unaesthetic--either you'd have lots of digraphs (which should probably be avoided considering English's love of diphthongs) or a bucket-load of diacritics like Vietnamese, which is, IMO, very ugly. The Latin Alphabet hates big vowel systems. Sad
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Sol
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2015, 09:23:46 PM »

This reminds me of how some professors argue against redneck/ghetto children having to learn proper English because that's "their" dialect, yet their argument is written in perfectly precise, pedantic, academic English.

The reality is that people take you more seriously if you use standard English.  End of story.

Did it perhaps occur to you that that may be the profs' native dialect?
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