How do we “fix” the English language?
How do we “fix” the English language?
Andrew Carter
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Matthew Ortiz
We don't. If people can learn fucking finnish and japanese then english is entirely doable.
James Cox
Andrew Cox
Newspeak
Angel Myers
We don't, it's perfect for a global language.
No prescribed pronunciation means it's easy as fuck to take in loanwords. You think Chinese could use the word schadenfreude?
Justin Hall
Don't the nips use european words all the time in their animes and mangos
Aiden Martinez
>other languages don’t use loan words
Sebastian Wood
Japanese works very differently to Chinese.
Well they have a word of the same meaning. 幸灾乐祸
Carter Cox
>it's perfect for a global language
This, English is so easy even Americans can learn it.
Benjamin Myers
Just like, haha, it evolves!?
Chase Stewart
Spelling reform. Literally every other European language periodically updates their spelling to at least somewhat match their pronunciation.
Chase Morgan
Except French where 60% of the letters are now silent
Lincoln Sullivan
We revert to Middle English phonetics
Zachary Hill
Alright, you got me there.
Gabriel Hernandez
...
Eli Turner
Make English a phonetic language
Nathaniel Barnes
only a minority of languages did that
Joseph Brown
Fun
100 years later 80 percent?
Dylan Wright
>their pronunciation
So which is the correct accent (tm)?
Jeremiah Morales
Not xer, but going to say whoever is in power
Mason Carter
Japanese is closer to western languages than it is to Chinese. Completely different word structure.
Tyler Perez
how do we create a global standard phonetic english spelling system that accounts for both rhoticism and non-rhoticism
Leo Cox
Xir*
Christopher Flores
Y-y-yes master
Jose Rodriguez
100% because you'll only hear Arabic in France.
Zachary Lewis
When in doubt, err on the more conservative pronunciation.
Also, there's no problem with different countries using slightly different systems (Brazil and Portugal use slightly different systems).
Carter Gray
You don't, languages aren't rational, as much as that may infuriate autistic stemcels on the internet.
Owen Green
Isn't the "r" sexist, coming from "her" and ignoring "his"? It's also stupid to replace the "h", the only letter both words share
Gavin Brooks
Kek
Daniel Bennett
Replace it with the german one?
Caleb Carter
why the fuck don't these people just learn esperanto instead of trying to change their language into it?
Thomas Nguyen
why have A sound like E when E is already a letter in the alphabet
same for other letters sounding like others