• wols@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    It’s plausible that Americans are worse at this than foreigners, but English spelling is a crime and everyone who makes mistakes ought be excused on account of how ridiculous the “rules” are.
    I know how to spell most of the words I use and I resent the fact that my memory is polluted with this otherwise useless knowledge.
    In many other languages if you know how to say a word, you automatically know how to spell it. We need a world language with grammar as simple as English and spelling as straightforward as German.

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      1 month ago

      Come learn french if you think english spelling is convoluted. And doesn’t the language you’re looking for exist ? Doesn’t esperanto check all your requirements ?