“Do you want to do this thing with me?”

“I’m down.”

“I’m up for it.”

  • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    C / K / S. Remove X. Change letter names to match their sounds.

    A / ugh / Ayyy.

    B = Buh

    C = Removed?

    D - Dih

    E - same?

    Etc. etc. there’s better linguists than an old school Grammar Nazi turned Language Darwinist.

    I like the idea of removing upper and lower case letters too and changing their denotation with a new symbol, but I’d have to think longer about case studies or could be easily persuaded.

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      11 months ago

      C has some uses other than K/S. The usage in "ch"ess, for instance. We’ll have to shoehorn some other letter here if C is eliminated.

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        11 months ago

        Or we may just reassign “c” to always sound “ch” since it’s freed from other sounds, and save some ink, too 😉