This is probably never going to happen, which is why I labeled it a pointless thread, but nevertheless fun to think about.
Words like Colonel are impossible to read as “kernel” without being told that it’s pronounced like that because the english language isn’t phonetic.
Should the english language remove unnecessary letters, such as c and q, and replace them with k’s, and such, and become a phonetic language?
examples: cat —> kat
suck —> suk
sex —> seks
…you mean those words are spelled incorrectly? :fffuuu:
no, and the Americans have already done that with lots of our words.
Eg, ou -> o (as in labour -> labor)
re -> er (eg metre -> meter)
ogue -> og (eg analogue -> analog)
i prefer meeter to be meter, actually, lol
edit: i flipped it around FFFf
really? Well it should be metre.
fixed my last post*
No, it should be meter. The sound “er” is made by the letter combination er, not re.
it should be meeter.
The word “leer” makes the same “ee” sound as the first syllable of the word “meter”.
Thus, it should be “meeter”
meter no matter wut you sayin
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well it is the English language, so it is metre. The american spelling does make more sense though.
Wait… “X” is supposed to be pronounced like that.
Do you also suggest that we pronounce “fat” as “phat”?
in that case potato is spelt ghoughphtheightteeau
Lol you’re British and you don’t even know how to spell that word in your own language? It’s metre. Englishmen say metre, Americans say meter.
No, but if you think about it…
The letter ‘k’ is pronounced “kaa” and ‘s’ is pronounced “ssss”
by putting these two together, they pronounce “kass” which is what ‘x’ is.
I’m saying ‘x’ is redundant and that the english language has to be phonetic. My reasoning is if you can phonetically pronounce a letter, why make a new letter for it?
On the other hand, phonetically, “ph” doesn’t pronounce ‘f’, rather ‘paha’, considering ‘p’ is pronounced “paa” and ‘h’ is pronounced “haa”. No combinations of letters could pronounce “ffff”, therefore ‘f’ is a necessary letter.
I don’t care how words are written as long as I’m correct in my spelling.
but you could pronounce f with ph, and it is not redundant, and anyway, before you go on at the English language for having the huge number of 26 letters, look at languages like Japanese, Arabic, Mandarin, Russian. Japanese has about 3 alphabets I think.
Johnson standardised according to Latin and Greek origins. Amerifags standardised according to faggotry. End of.
No point in changing something that already works.
@ Jingles:
Arabic only has 28 Letters and Russian 33. That is not a huge number of letters. And the more letters you have, the smaller your words become, the faster it becomes to write. It is an advantage to have lots of letters.
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