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Originally Posted by Ekaros
I blame English for that, idiotic piece of ... I hope in some time future there is reform and direct connect with spelling and pronociation, would make life much simpler... After that, to get rid of irregularities...
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Whilst consistency between spelling and pronunciation would make life easier, you would also lose clarity at times.
For example, I just read a sentence in a book where there are some people stood next to some laptops. A character asks, "What are these?". The reply is, "Their computers". If we couldn't distinguish between 'their' and 'they're' by spelling it would not necessarily have come across from that that these computers belonged to the nearby people.
That's just one, hastily recalled, example. I'm sure there are many more/better ones.