https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform Yeah, English is also a pet-peeve of mine. Inconsistent phonetics are confusing, bothersome, and makes learning harder for no real benefit at all. However, it's also too much work/money/time to do some kind of reform. It is what it is, I guess.

I forgot about ghoti, thanks for the reminder (could also have said remainder here, reads the same lol) Also take a look at this shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/Homophones I have a personal list of word spellings that make no sense. For example wind and rewind - why does the entire word's pronounciation change if we prepend "re" to it? I will share the list when I remember

Previous alterations section in the spelling reform article you sent is very interesting. They fucked up English more while trying to fix it!

Exactly. There's no consensus on what makes language "better". That's why previous attempts were highly controversial, and arguably made things worse.

@alpx maybe you'll like constructed languages like Ithkuil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil

@rainight I'm somewhat familiar with conlangs actually. But the thing is; unless there's a significant community that uses the language, and a rich body of literature written in it, it essentially becomes useless. But they sure are interesting as a hobby/project though.