RE: It's time to rid ourselves of the letters C, Q, and X
Attributed to Mark Twain:
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.
BRILLIANT...but then we'd all have to learn to read again. And 20 years is much too soon to achieve such a feat! Maybe just scrap the whole idea! Lolol! Perhaps the esteemed literary minds of our time came to the same conclusion, which is why "orxogrefkl riform" has never happened, but I am glad to see they at least thought about it! I’m still hopeful. Thanks for sharing this. :-)
you kan start giving it a try here on steemit. It's manly the C replaced by K (or S)
The Q and X how often do you write those?