the letter C, what a chump of a letter. we have K and S, so why need C? its useful for CH words of course, but used as S or K is redundant and makes us look dumber. Lets rid ourselves of such unnesessary hogwash and say fuk letter C.

how would one pronounse the word cicc? siks? kiks? sisk? kiss? or something im unaware of, and what would be definition if new word?

This is the funny think about languages. Can't apply logic

Someone says something for some reason and that becomes the holy truth

@asgs no, he's right. In English it makes no sense. But not in other languages which use latin alphabet where each letter actually means a distinct sound it makes sense

Lets get rid of u. Fck u

Asked chatGPT why the letter C exists and the answer is too long to paste here. But it came from different alphabets

To anyone saying kina... Or kinese wall.

Fuck you.

Seriously, fuuuuuuuuuucckkkkk you.

@IntrusionCM jinese...

In most cases (including English) there are often subtle differences in the sounds those graphemes represent.

You could argue why F and V exist, they originate from the same thing, but they represent slightly different sounds. Same for B and V, Z and C, and let's not start with vowels.

Yeah, let’s replace it with the German ß 😂

A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling, by Mark Twain (or possibly M.J. Yilz/Shields)

http://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/...

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.

The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

@Root

Fucking genius. Shame I can't updoot x100

@Lensflare that was tried and failed... Just be glad it isn't French...

@Root Xi end rizalt luks a bit laik Datc. Meibi jast ditc Ingliy oltugexer en leer in plaats daarvan Nederlands.

OH COOKIE COOKIE COOKIE START WITH C

@TeachMeCode clit, cloth, climate, climax, closure, clojure, clothes, cut, cat, cadaver, creepy, crappy, crate..

@Lensflare I thought even the Germans replaced that sign

@retoor In practice it’s often replaced by ss. But it’s still part of the official writing rules.

@TeachMeCode
@retoor

He's talking phonetically.

Cookie you still read as "Kuki"
Cunt would be "kant" and so on

Then again, the results would be as idiotic as root pointed out

@Hazarth it's not idiotic, you're the idiot because you're not used to it. If it was the norm, you'd be fine with it and wouldn't have it any other way.

ChatGPT doesn't dissapoint.

Me (copied from @root): This is a style of english: Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Me: Say your mother is a cow in this style

ChatGPT: In this style of English, the phrase "Say your mother is a cow" would be written as follows: "Sei yor muther is a kou."

Edit: wanted to write it myself in python but after three secs i found out it's not that ez.

Hmm, would you get used to it if you would convert and read a small book in this language? I think yes

@retoor you could pull IPA pronunciation from a dictionary and have simple rules how to approximate it with regular letters

@electrineer That's a good idea but omg.. We're talking about Python.. Of course it's just:

import eng_to_ipa as ipa

>>> ipa.convert("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.")

'ðə kwɪk braʊn fɑks ʤəmpt ˈoʊvər ðə ˈleɪzi dɔg.'

Source code boxes are something really missing on dR

@electrineer Not sure if you're being serious or not.

@electricneer it iz ikstrimli similr tu Hangerien iksept thet "a" reprezents xe saund of laik 3 distinkt syllables wic hev dejr oun simbols in hangerien