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I kind of wish we didn't have gendered pronouns in English. So much fuss when we could just be using the same words for everyone like some other languages.

English's acceptance of old world spellings and superfluous letters. Everything should be spelled phonetically and consistently, and we should change the alphabet to get rid of confusion. Here's my suggestions:

1. Everything is spelled phonetically. No exceptional letter rules, and names are included.
2. Vowels change sound with an accent, not a silent e or modifier. So Kate is now Kāt. Vote is Vōt.
3. C can always be replaced with an S or K, so now it makes the CH sound. So cat is kat, chase is cās.
4. X is bullshit and doesn't mean anything, so we'll use the Mayan version and now it makes the SH sound.
5. Y can always be replaced with an i or e, so we'll go old English and now it makes the TH sound.
6. The -ed and -er sounds don't need the E. It doesn't do anything.
7. Double letters are unnecessary , so now the vowel sound of U,(ū) makes the oo sound. The original sound is now ēū, as in kēūkumbr.
8. G is now a vowel. Put a line on top for the J sound.
9. Since j is now unnecessary, it makes the French J sound, or DZh. We don't us it much but it's nice to have.
10. Since ū has changed, it can now replace W, ūic kan bē asīnd ā nū soūnd låtr az nēd bē.
11. Z is on thin fucking ice, but for now it'll replace soft s' where it's used. Or ēūzd, if ū ūil. It will be the difference between prōnoūns and prōnoūnz.

So naū anē budē kan prōnoūns anē ūrd imēdēetlē, and nō ūun ūil sā unuyr nām rong. Yis haz Ben mī Ted Tok.

Hmm, could probably use a long a letter. Tok doesn't feel right. Maybe the French ê?

I'm not sure about the NG sound. Maybe J is also a vowel, and G accented is NG? I'm open to suggestions. Sugjestxunz.

Edit: also dates. It should be YYYY/MM/DD. Categories should always go from least to most specific.

On that subject, even though it's not language specific, we should have thirteen four week months with names that make sense. Every date of every year is the same day, planning ahead and due dates are simple. It makes 364 days, so new years day and leap year are extra special holiday days, nobody works or buys anything. If you have an emergency on one of those days, and can't make it til Sunday the first, yo either call an acquaintance who can help, or lose and die. Sorry mate. Buy three days worth of food on Saturday the 28th of Thirtember. Hope the power doesn't go out. Or move the free day to July, which is now called September.

The words "funnily" "reasonableness" and "impactful".

Even though they're apparently all real words, they are clunky and make one sound unintelligent when there are more elegant synonyms available like "comically/humorously" "reason" (no idea why it needs the "-ness" to be a noun when it already is) and "significant".

My native language is English.

What irritates me most is the whole thing. The language is so incredibly contextual that it is a pain in the ass once you learn something less contextual. It seems deeply infected with all the parts of English/American culture that I hate. It feels like you cannot just say what you mean, you have to dance in circles and obscure the point. Theres no need for it to be so complicated.

It is not tied to a certain language. But I fucking h when I rhyme words by acciden

Spanish has genderneutral terms and they are not the default, people are trying to move away from defaulting to masc pronouns but it's been hard to get everyone on board