@58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoSince the invention of the printing press and mass-produced books in the 15th century, silent letters/syllables in written texts have unnecessarily hastened deforestationmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down120
arrow-up1145arrow-down1message-squareSince the invention of the printing press and mass-produced books in the 15th century, silent letters/syllables in written texts have unnecessarily hastened deforestation@58008@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-square@Kelly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoTrue context helps - but I wouldn’t want to consciously smurfify the language.
minus-square@Eheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•9 months agoI agree and would go further, simplifying words so they more closely match how you pronounce them. So that there are not 3 completely different words, written exactly the same.
True context helps - but I wouldn’t want to consciously smurfify the language.
I agree and would go further, simplifying words so they more closely match how you pronounce them. So that there are not 3 completely different words, written exactly the same.