User:Cassowary/What’s with the corrected spelling page

What’s with the corrected spelling page&thinsp;? I hear you ask.&emsp;A good question&thinsp;!&emsp;It is a reformed spelling that represents a complete overhaul of our current system.&emsp;This page establishes why spelling reform is necessary, and then describes my reformed spelling.

Why bother&thinsp;?
Why should anyone want to reform English spelling&thinsp;?&emsp;Our current system has lasted us hundreds of years, and lets us read Shakespeare as he wrote it, and has millions of books and billions of dollars invested in it.&emsp;Not only that, but although the current system is poorly suited to every dialect on earth, no reformed spelling could be as well suited to every one.&emsp;Not only that, but a reformed spelling would hide morphological similarities.&emsp;Reforming it would surely be a waste of time, money and effort.&emsp;I intend to point out why every one of these strawmen are false.

Morphology
It’s actually possible to get a reformed spelling that respects most of the common morphological patterns&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;the common ones, the ones that actually matter to most people&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;without interfering terribly with the notion that spelling reform should be generally phonological.

Most morphological patterns in languages are pretty simple, or completely