User:Shirt58/Semi-obligatory pet theory sub-page

Hello, and welcome to English orthography reform crackpot sub-page, the semi-obligatory user sub-page where one is expected to put forward their pet theory

The answer is simple
Now I think English a great language, which is handy, because it's the only one I can speak. (Languages I can read, well, that's another matter. There's a shop about 5 minutes away from me that has boxes of CDs out front, and the boxes are marked 新加坡,臺灣,日韓,越南 and so so, which tells me not only where they are from, but a little bit about the shop-owners' politics and background.)  Middle English I especially like, and not just because my party piece is the Wife of Bath's Prologue. It's written as it is spoken, unlike Modern English, which I am led to believe is due to Thomas Caxton and his bowel movements. Or possibly his vowel shifts, I can never remember which one. I do think its cool having the etymology preserved in the spelling, which is why there is a blinding simple and elegant solution to the horrible mess that is English orthography. Let's all speak Italian. (I mean, it's not like you have to actually learn the language, is it? It translates itself as you read.  OK, YMMV.)

Lets start again
English orthography is horrible. And little things like spelling colour as "color" don't make a bit of difference: to a speaker of romance languages, it would just change it from looking like it should be pronounced from */kolur/ to */kolor/. In the alternative, you could write English with pretty much letter to sound correspondence with just one extra letter and just one diacritic. And they're both part of standard English orthography already! And it could be adapted to regional dialects so easily. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin.

Vowels
Oops, I forgot. The default meaning of "America" is "United States of America". Similarly, the default meaning of "American English" is "English of the United States of America." And American English, specifically Mid-Western, is the default setting for English, worldwide. It simply is. Deal with it. Otherwise, you're over with the camp that seriously believes that the fact that not one person has come forward to blow the whistle on all those faked moon landings simply proves how widespread and all pervasive the cover-up is. What this is leading up to is saying that while this really should be about aligning spelling with pronunciation in the default world English... I'm more familiar with the BBC variety.