It's Time to Fix the English Alphabet


Ephemeral Rift
Published 4 years ago

The English language is one of, if not THE, hardest languages to learn because its old foundation, the alphabet, has major cracks in the form of inconsistencies and redundancies, and is often illogical, absurd, and unnecessarily over-complicated & convoluted.

As a simple layman who has only been using the English language for almost half a century, I share my thoughts, perspective, reasoning and examples as to how and why it's broken, then propose a possible solution in which we might fix it without a complete overhaul or introducing any drastic changes.

Video index:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:36 Perfection does not exist
00:07:36 ~500 years old
00:11:47 Efficient, logical, simple, no redundancy
00:14:58 Reflect, review, change
00:17:57 They're just symbols
00:21:38 Consistency
00:26:20 Examples of broken letters
00:41:38 "Secret decoder ring"
00:48:28 Sounds (phonemes) needing letter representation
00:53:21 Proposing a solution
00:57:33 Reviewing upper & lower case
01:00:01 Examples of revised words using a new alphabet

This notion that the alphabet is broken is nothing new. This video also serves as a way for me to simply add my voice to the ones already out there who have previously raised this issue and have been calling for such reform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform

My website: https://ephemeralrift.com

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