>>10206040well part of the reason the current spelling is so bad is that it wasn't regulated in the middle ages, words from different languages entered english usually keeping their original spelling, or sometimes changed arbitrarily whenever the speakers felt like it, that's why you have like 8 different ways to spell a specific sound or have the same combination of letters voiced differently in certain words
if there isn't a standard then new and new forms of the same word will pop up, the spellings won't converge
that's how it was for most european languages before they got reformed and standardized
Well anyway I'm not arguing for a spelling reform, I think things are fine how they are, because it's functional so what's the problem?
but these usually took decades or centuries for example in hungarian from the early 1700s to around 1850, so it's not like you have to come up with a set of strict spelling rules and apply them tomorrow, a more sensible way of doing it would be starting with the least used "irregular" combinations of letters and slowly changing them one by one over multiple generations until you end up with a regular vocabulary
