Despite Mark Twain's joke about the notion of simplifying English spelling [1], I believe a gradually engineered shift in spelling could reduce the friction when learning English as a second language.
Our spelling rules are obtuse and absurdly disconnected from the underlying phonemes. A better system for spelling would have a clear 1:1 mapping between the graphemes and the phonemes with a simple and concise rule set.
Our spelling rules are obtuse and absurdly disconnected from the underlying phonemes. A better system for spelling would have a clear 1:1 mapping between the graphemes and the phonemes with a simple and concise rule set.
[1] https://www.plainlanguage.gov/resources/humor/spelling-in-th...