• pooberbee (they/she)@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    I disagree. X is a useless letter in English; it’s always copying other letters or combinations of letters. Meanwhile, there’s a special rule where putting an ‘s’ and an ‘h’ together makes a different sound. Why not have a single letter for that?

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      10 days ago

      Because a diphthong is fine. Taking a already used character and assigning a new sound to it is going to make things hard.

      Also I need you to argue not just from the English point of view, but all Latin alphabet using languages, in particular those with strict rules of pronunciation like German.