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In the end the best language will win on its own merits... and it is rather obvious, now, on Earth, that English has won that battle.
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i agree with much of what you say, silent e does a lot of stuff...to jsut drop it would mean likely a complete changing to the sounds of the letters of the alphabet (not a bad idea i find)...teaching phonics and other reading methods to esl students all day has me fed up explaining why this is like this when its suppose to be like that lol.
but i wonder, why people will think English has won? i would agree many asian character languages simply follow little logic in their structure....but looking at the number of people who use other languages it is somewhat comparable to english...although not quite as much. but each language still has numerous artists, books, researchers and so on as english, the difference seems to be these countries are nice enough to translate a lot into english....not sure why we tend not to translate much into their languages.
^^says the person with 100 typos in every post
