• Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    If no-one spoke english as a second language right now, that would be true. As it stands though, hundreds of millions have already learned english, and our global communications and trade infrastructure is based around it. Switching to a new language would mean everyone who currently speaks english needs to learn an additional language.

    If we could start from scratch then a constructed language like esperanto would make more sense than using any natural language, but if we want to make a change to the system that already exists, then reforming the spelling and grammar of the language currently in use makes more sense practically.

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      1 year ago

      Fixing english is not possible.

      German could be fixed, just remove pronouns and all the stupid rules that make no sense.

      But english makes no sense, half the words would need to be pronounced differently.