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| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5082 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes  Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 73 of 85 18 February 2011 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Japanese get rid of Kanji and be written in Hiragana only. Also change English spelling. Edited by Matheus on 18 February 2011 at 3:21pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 74 of 85 24 February 2011 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 75 of 85 24 February 2011 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me, English spelling is testament to its fascinating history. If anyone changed it I would just rub my magic oil lamp and ask my genie to change it back again.
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| CS Groupie United States Joined 5129 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Latin, French | Message 77 of 85 25 February 2011 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd make "y'all" standard English. "Horribly dialectical" - never!
Also, I'd revive Etruscan. Because it was awesome. Edited by CS on 25 February 2011 at 10:40pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6666 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 78 of 85 26 February 2011 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Arabic phonology: ayn, hamza and the emphatic consonants can all go to hell for all I care.
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| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 79 of 85 06 March 2011 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Texans like me will rejoice. :) As for English, I think it's fine the way it is, but I've always been interested to see how English would sound and look like with the use of genders. - Kat 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5035 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 80 of 85 06 March 2011 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would leave English orthography alone. Even if it provides difficulties, the culture is wrapped up in the orthography. There are some people in romance who say, "Love me; love my dog." I think I would have to be "Love my language; love its orthography."
As I am new to Japanese, I would add more spaces between words so I know where one thing ends and another begins. When I look at a block of text, it looks like an unbroken block, and it is very hard for me to distinguish anything in it. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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