“Do you want to do this thing with me?”

“I’m down.”

“I’m up for it.”

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    Flammable. Inflammable. Famous. Infamous. So many dumb prefixes that make no sense.

    There really needs to be more language revisions every couple decades to get rid of stupid shit or revise letters, words, and spellings to be more in tune with their phonetic pronunciations.

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      1 year ago

      C / K / S. Remove X. Change letter names to match their sounds.

      A / ugh / Ayyy.

      B = Buh

      C = Removed? It’s just K or S in reality.

      D - Dih

      E - same?

      Etc. etc. there’s better linguists than an old school Grammar Nazi turned Language Darwinist.

      I like the idea of removing upper and lower case letters too and changing their denotation with a new symbol, but I’d have to think longer about case studies or could be easily persuaded.

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        C has some uses other than K/S. The usage in "ch"ess, for instance. We’ll have to shoehorn some other letter here if C is eliminated.

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          Or we may just reassign “c” to always sound “ch” since it’s freed from other sounds, and save some ink, too 😉