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I don't think anyone disagrees English writing sucks, but the inertia is massive, and the benefits not all that clear relative to the absolutely massive cost. Retraining every English speaker to write, changing all our keyboards, changing signage and physical written word... it's a near impossible task. And it's not clear to me what the benefit is when, yes, a billion people can more or less communicate in it just fine.

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