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1. srg0 ◴[] No.41836234[source]
I would also like to point out that English spelling is obsolete and should be abolished (/s). The text of the CRLF abolition proposal itself contains more digraphs, trigraphs, diphthongs, and silent letters than line-ending sequences. The last letter of the word "obsolete" is not necessary. "Should" can be written as only three letters in Shavian "𐑖𐑫𐑛".

According to ChatGPT, the original proposal had:

Number of sentences: 60 Number of diphthongs: 128 (pairs of vowels in the same syllable like "ai", "ea", etc.) Number of digraphs: 225 (pairs of letters representing a single sound, like "th", "ch", etc.) Number of trigraphs: 1 (three-letter combinations representing a single sound, like "sch") Number of silent letters: 15 (common silent letter patterns like "kn", "mb", etc.)

For all intents and purposes, CRLF is just another digraph.

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2. ksp-atlas ◴[] No.41836261[source]
I'm a big fan of English spelling reform and know Shavian and sometimes write in it, but I feel shavian is limited due to how heavily it uses letter rotation. Dyslexics already have trouble with b, d, p and q, having most letters have a rotated form would be challenging