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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 12 July 2015 02:37:21AM 2 points [-]

Alternative option: English is already a de facto world language, and it is well suited to borrowing foreign terms when it needs to, but humanity should be ashamed that it conducts its main scientific, commercial and diplomatic operations in a language with such a defective writing system. Spelling reform (or a completely new, purely phonetic alphabet) is urgent.

Um, spelling reform large destroys the benefits of already being a de facto world language.