• dan@upvote.au
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    1 month 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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      1 month ago

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