hypothetically, let’s say you were tasked with simplifying the English language. how would you go about doing that, and why?
to start with an easy one, the first thing I would do is eliminate silent letters from all words and make it so no letters share sounds. for example, example would become exampel. then, because x would no longer be around or at least wouldn’t have that sound, ekzampel. I would also consider eliminating mulit-letter sounds like ch, and replacing them with single characters (probably the ones that got removed).
How would you differentiate face and phase?
fase and faze. of course faze is already a word, so we’d have to come up with something for that too. I think it’d be fine to have it phase and faze spelt the same since they already sound the same. at least then it would be easier to spell correctly.