A major problem for improving English spelling is that hundreds
of amateurs have invented schemes to make their own sound-symbol
correspondences regardless of the fact that present English
spelling holds a tremendous amount of the world's print, past
and present. These schemes scare off everybody else, to think
that spelling reform must be hare-brained and impossible. Any
reform to be practicable must be a simple modification of what
we have already - until there is some breakthru to a writing
system that can cross languages - like Chinese but without its
problems. Here are some criteria for practicable reform.
practical improvement of English spelling The ideal writing
system would cross languages and meet all needs for reading,
writing and learning. This breakthrough has not yet been
invented. What is possible now Our present spelling can be made
more user-frendly and efficient internationally than it is now.
Learners could then 'teach themselves to read' using audiovisual
tecnology - which is not fully fea