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33: Why spelling is hard — but also hard to change

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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Is There a Way to Reform English Spelling?

A proposal to reform english spelling even more etymologically, right? And say, ok, if a word comes from a language that traditionally uses the latin alphabet, like sure, we can keep using the latin Alphabet for it. But if a word come from greek, we should keep using the greek alphabet, right? So we should be spelling tonome using japanese characters, exactly. You see where this is going, right? Or like vodka using serilic because it's from russian. And like etymological, using greek letters because it'm from greek. It is very difficult to read, and delightful. I like a good spelling

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