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Old 02-22-2007, 03:58 AM   #23
Kingswood
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla View Post
The end result of total, rigorous phoneticization of English orthography is the expansion of the alphabet from twenty-six characters to around forty. And this will only do, if fixed and unmodified, for a century or two.

See Omniglot, and suchlike neo-alphabets. All interesting, none likely to see use.
I agree. Public acceptance of such an extended alphabet would be unlikely. The USA still does not use the metric system in everyday life for similar reasons.
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