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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