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22 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 July 2015 09:40PM

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Comment author: garabik 10 July 2015 08:47:06AM 0 points [-]

It is much easier to do a spelling reform in a mostly illiterate country

Indeed. Look at the rejected recent German orthography reform – and the changes were (relatively) minor.

Or the messed up Slovak orthography reform from the '90s – and that was mostly a few acutes here and there.