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).
didn’t know there was a word for it but yeah, that’s exactly what I had in mind. I’d also want to fix some grammar rules but grammar barely matters anyway (I’m from east texas, grammar is for talking to people who don’t know me well enough to decode my slurring).