Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
> Even English _could_ be encoded with a syllabary, but you'd need an
> awful lot of symbols.
By the time you got to learning the syllabograms for "strength" and
"strengths", you'd have probably forgotten everything else. English would
be better off using yingzi (
http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm ).
But no, the true way forward for English writing reform is Axel Wijk's
Regularized Inglish.
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