It's time to rid ourselves of the letters C, Q, and X

[aclaymc]

I propose ridding ourselves of the letters C, Q and X forever...they're duplicative. We needn't use C because we have both S and K, distinctive unlike their kopykat komrade. Q doesn't even make a sound on it's own and, if there is some obscure word that begins with Q without its U crutch of which I am oblivious, it probably makes the now K sound. Thus, let's replace it with Kw...that's a kwality suggestion, I think. And for the love of God, X is just ridiculous, as evidenced by the fact that every explanation given to children of this unfortunate letter has some picture of a Zylophone next to it! We'll replace it with Ks as in Focks or Bocks or SOCKS (oh yes, I forgot...no C, but way to be inconsistent, English language). Done! 23 letters of the alphabet now - let's lobby someone about this or write a congressman or two (I'm sure they're sick of letters about you know who anyway). I could probably do something with that G/J conundrum too! Okay, that's my rant for today. -April

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[preparedwombat]

Attributed to Mark Twain:

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to be replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which c would be retained would be the ch formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform w spelling, so that which and one would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish y replasing it with i and Iear 4 might fiks the g/j anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez c, y and x — bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez — tu riplais ch, sh, and th rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

[aclaymc]

BRILLIANT...but then we'd all have to learn to read again. And 20 years is much too soon to achieve such a feat! Maybe just scrap the whole idea! Lolol! Perhaps the esteemed literary minds of our time came to the same conclusion, which is why "orxogrefkl riform" has never happened, but I am glad to see they at least thought about it! I’m still hopeful. Thanks for sharing this. :-)

[bifilarcoil]

you kan start giving it a try here on steemit. It's manly the C replaced by K (or S)

The Q and X how often do you write those?

[aclaymc]

.....it's pretty random when you think about it. Why would ch inherently make that sound? Someone just decided that it should. Technically, it probably should be its own letter (along with th), but hey... If we want to continue to be random, I say do kh - it's not anymore ridiculous than ch. Ship it! Lololol!