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I'd be mostly fine with the huge bagload of loanwords if we could at least have a spelling system that made sense for our language, like we used to... 1000 years ago.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/English_spelling_reform


Do you propose adopting the shavian alphabet or just modifying spelling with the latin alphabet?


Latin alphabet but with some accents, and the eth/thorn/yogh/wynn/ash (ð/þ/Ȝ/ƿ/æ) characters that English used to have, and Icelandic still has some of.

[1] http://www.csun.edu/~sk36711/WWW/KAG/ch2.html

I'm sure everyone will start using it because I want them to ;-)




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