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Why change it anyway?
Because it's impossible for anyone who is not a native speaker to know how a new word is pronounced just by looking at it- that's a good start I think...
where am I from? lol, take a wild guess... : )
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Non-native speakers?
As a non-native speaker of Spanish, should I get a say in how spelling is done? Had I any say, I would certainly like to see some things changed around. Perhaps we can take 'es' and spell it 'ace'; after all, as a non-native speaker that is what I would find most easy.
I like that a lot, actually! We should let the non-native speakers determine how other peoples' languages are written. You strike me as one smart guy/gal, with one revolutionary idea that could really change the world for the better!
Just kidding, of course. Your reason is bunk. You'll have to pick a new one from the deck if you want to support your conclusion ;-)
Jon
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Sorry but Spanish has become too phonetic, and the native speakers will not allow further spelling reforms. Spanish speakers arrived to this conclusion in the XIX century. Then Spanish was already too simple to make it easier. I think that 100% phonetic languages are too trivial, they lack charm in some way. In the case of Spanish, to be more phonetic implies to destroy many ties with the Latin ortography, and the Spanish speakers are too proud because their language resembles Latin to make a systematic reform only because lazy people want a simple and predictable language.
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Que mas les queda decir, quisieran que su idioma fuese tan perfecto como el español, pero como saben que nunca lo sera, no les queda otra mas que conformarse y autoengañarse creeyendo que si un idioma no es complicado con reglas absurdas entonces no tiene encanto? es una completa estupidez, pero bueno suerte con tu complicado e imposible ingles.
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Just try to read that and you'll probably get it right, how many of you wish you could that with English? lol.
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Oh Jon,
Just because I think about others welfare rather than my own, does that make me crazy? Oh damn, no, that just makes me not like you! haha, just kidding!
(no. I'm not)
By the way, I am a native speaker if that's supposed to mean anything special. It doesn't to me.
I'm not going to tell you what you need to go do ; )
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Let's keep this on English spelling reform please. If you'd like to discuss Spanish spelling, please do so on the languages forum.
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