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Comment author: Jiro 08 July 2015 06:55:03PM 3 points [-]

Spelling reform will fail because of regional differences in pronunciation. Also, spelling reform is bad for culture since it means that people taught the new system will be unable to read older material.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 09 July 2015 07:43:00AM 3 points [-]

Also, spelling reform is bad for culture since it means that people taught the new system will be unable to read older material.

Maybe not if you wrote a computer program to convert old spellings to new spellings.

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