Countless reforms have already been attempted over the centuries, but here we are with this mess anyway. Yeah, that didn’t go as planned.
I think our best bet would be to switch to a more sensible language altogether. If USA loses its position in tech and entertainment, we’re probably going to switch to Chinese where writing is even more complicated.
Don’t know much, but what I do know is that each symbol corresponds to a sound… for the most part.
If you hear a new word, you just listen to the sounds and convert them to a sequence of symbols. That way dictionaries are actually quite helpful and easy to use. Try that with English and you’ll see what I mean.
It works the other way too. If you read a new word somewhere, you can pronounce just like everyone else. Try that with English…
Countless reforms have already been attempted over the centuries, but here we are with this mess anyway. Yeah, that didn’t go as planned.
I think our best bet would be to switch to a more sensible language altogether. If USA loses its position in tech and entertainment, we’re probably going to switch to Chinese where writing is even more complicated.
Perhaps the Chinese will one day switch to an alphabet like Hangul or something similar. 🤣
Oh that one. The Korean alphabet is pretty neat and sensible.
To be honest, I don’t really know how it works, but I really like the aesthetic.
Don’t know much, but what I do know is that each symbol corresponds to a sound… for the most part.
If you hear a new word, you just listen to the sounds and convert them to a sequence of symbols. That way dictionaries are actually quite helpful and easy to use. Try that with English and you’ll see what I mean.
It works the other way too. If you read a new word somewhere, you can pronounce just like everyone else. Try that with English…
The west switching to chinese would be interesting to see, but I am doubtful.