hypothetically, let’s say you were tasked with simplifying the English language. how would you go about doing that, and why?
to start with an easy one, the first thing I would do is eliminate silent letters from all words and make it so no letters share sounds. for example, example would become exampel. then, because x would no longer be around or at least wouldn’t have that sound, ekzampel. I would also consider eliminating mulit-letter sounds like ch, and replacing them with single characters (probably the ones that got removed).
Go read 1984 sometime. It includes a blueprint for “simplifying” English.
what do you mean?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
cool but that’s not relevant to the post at all