hypothetically, let’s say you were tasked with simplifying the English language. how would you go about doing that, and why?
to start with an easy one, the first thing I would do is eliminate silent letters from all words and make it so no letters share sounds. for example, example would become exampel. then, because x would no longer be around or at least wouldn’t have that sound, ekzampel. I would also consider eliminating mulit-letter sounds like ch, and replacing them with single characters (probably the ones that got removed).
fase and faze. of course faze is already a word, so we’d have to come up with something for that too. I think it’d be fine to have it phase and faze spelt the same since they already sound the same. at least then it would be easier to spell correctly.