• dan@upvote.au
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      4 hours ago

      Given the fact that that poem is 100 years old, I would have thought that English would have evolved to fix these issues by now. Oh well.

      We need a new language I guess. Maybe it’s time to switch to the most popular language in the world (in terms of number of native speakers): Mandarin Chinese.

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        5 hours ago

        The use of emojis is.slowly converting written language back to hieroglyphics, so your new language is already happening.

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        12 hours ago

        Maybe better use second most popular: Spanish, it at least uses same letters (differently though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)