Autumn64@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 1 year agoEnglish rulelemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1429arrow-down10
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minus-squareninpninlinkfedilinkarrow-up46arrow-down1·1 year agoAmerican English makes nowhere near enough simplifications to the English spelling
minus-squarebleistift2@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoThe problem with simplifying spelling is that the simplifications wouldn’t make sense; apparently, according to some YouTube video I can’t find anymore.
minus-squarebleistift2@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoAnd according to another video I could find, English was made harder to spell on purpose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07f-cKWRtk
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): https://www.piped.video/watch?v=j07f-cKWRtk Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
American English makes nowhere near enough simplifications to the English spelling
The problem with simplifying spelling is that the simplifications wouldn’t make sense; apparently, according to some YouTube video I can’t find anymore.
And according to another video I could find, English was made harder to spell on purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07f-cKWRtk
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=j07f-cKWRtk
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.