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English Spelling Reformation Anonymous Mon Jun 15 22:08:37 2015 No.6694333 [View]
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I've seen very few of these, so let's give it a try.
Let's discuss the possible reformation of the spelling of the English language; or the entire replacement of the currently used script.

First, the oldest proposed reformation. Proposed by Benjamin Franklin, it was supposed to be phonetic. It had it's flaws.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 15 04:48:00 2015 No.6145226 [View] File: 6 KB, 595x151, franklin.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why didn't America go the whole way and make English completely phonetic? Why did they pussy out so badly?

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