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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Orthographic reform now! Our movement is dozens strong!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

go ahead, make a spelling system which works in all dialects.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not necessary. You can "have your cake" and eat it with spoons of both Aluminum and Aluminium, too. It just has to reflect spoken sounds in some kind of reasonably-direct way.

Hmm. Do Brazilians still spell stuff the Portuguese way? Most of the European languages probably have some kind of prescribed national dialect, Arabic has classical Arabic, and Chinese has non-alphabetic characters, but I don't know about that one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

did you mean :

orthografik reform now! Awa moovment iz dozens strong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oui ! Mais pour le français d'abord !