Fixing the Alphabet

[sapphoenixthefirebird]

Instead of outright removing C, re-purpose it for the "ch" sound.

Edit: It seems that people are misunderstanding my suggestion. What I mean is that every C that can be replaced with a K, S, or Sh will be replaced, but the C's in words with /t͡ʃ/ (the "ch" sound) will remain. Hence, "Pacific Ocean" becomes "Pësifik Oshën" (ë represents a schwa), but "church" becomes "curc". BTW, this is what Malay/Indonesian already does, except that they mostly use ⟨sy⟩ instead of ⟨sh⟩ for /ʃ/.

[syx]

X sounding like Z needs to be addressed

[matthun]

This is totally something I'd have come up with if I were a monolingual English speaking child who just learned the alphabet.

[joshentis]

At 7:07 I love how X is shaking, because things happened to the two letters around him loves the attention to detail

[khodibritton]

Did you actually—er, actuall-ee forget about X? The letter that is literally just the K and S sounds slapped together? Heck, even when—er, qhen it doesn’t make the (kss) sound, like in xylophone, it steals Z’s shindig, as in (ziy-loh-fohn)! If an-ee-thing, I’d say it’s worse—er, qorse than Q!
Also, just so you knoq, the reason W is called (duh-bhl-yoo) is because the (wuh) sound it makes used to just be represented qith, qell, a double-U. Two U’s. Eventuall-ee, those tqo U’s got turned into their oqn character, W. Even though, yes, it does look more like a double-V than a double-U.

[HughvanZyl]

English used to have a letter called "wynn" (1 syllable) which made a "w" sound. Why not just call "w" "wynn" instead of "q". I personally think that'd make more sense, as the name of a letter should include it's sound. Also, in some English accents "w" is sometimes a vowel too.

[justaguy]

C can be used to only make the "ch-" sound like in "chance", which would be written as "canse". That's what they do in Malay, which makes it more simple and gives "C" a purpose.

[VortexBricks]

Removing c from the alphabet would make the two words cell and sell even more complicated

[TraeKryzer]

It's creepy how I've wanted to build a 4D game for a while now, and after finding your channel, I've found that you've already made a very similar video to one I previously made about the alphabet. It's like... we've been on the same wavelength for years.

[godk]

I am from Ukraine, and in Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian alphabet there is a rule of one letter - one sound. The exception is "Е, Ё, Ю, Я" because these sounds can be obtained by a combination of the letters "ЙЭ, ЙО, ЙУ, ЙА", also the exception is "ъ, ь" these characters are needed to harden and soften the letters, respectively. We don't have problems like with the letter "C", and we don't combine letters for new sounds, because the alphabet of 33 letters is enough

[KidPrarchord]

Just a couple very minor things I wanted to point out.

The letter "C", from my understanding, isn't actually a duplicate of "S" or "K". When you look at words using "S" vs "C", you'll often find that "C" is pronounced more sharply whereas "S" is more soft. It's the reverse situation with "C" and "K" (with the addition that "C" is more commonly used as a starting character, whereas "K" is more often mid-word (that's also where the "CK" spelling comes from, I believe)).

I think that, instead of removing "C" altogether, it should be kept to make the "SH" and "CH" sounds (Perhaps written as "C" and "JC" respectively.). To keep on the trend of removing letters reliance on "H" to modify sound, it might do well to remap "TH" to be written as "TT".

Along these lines, I think we should replace the soft "J" sound in words such as "Rouge" with "CJ". And, while we're at it, let's replace the function of "E" modifying vowel sounds when placed at the end of words, and instead just double that vowel.

The reason why "W" is so weird is because it literally is a double "U". Its sound was originally transcribed as "UU". Since it appeared so commonly, people eventually started writing it as its own character which were just two "U" merged together. It later got further simplified through time as many characters do to make writing it easier, leading us to the "W" we know today. A lot of fonts today actually still hold onto the more traditional rounded variant if you look for it. I agree with ditching it for "Q", however.

I think that X could easily be thrown out as well, though, I'm a bit on the fence about it. While it can be spelled with other letters, its sound-combination appears enough that having one symbol to represent it does a good job simplifying written language. When going back to the archaic pronunciation point, X at the beginning of words isn't actually intended to be pronounced as "Z"; it just became that way because the "KS" sounded kind of similar and was hard to pronounce for some. I think that, for words starting with "X", we should just further simplify it into starting with "S" or "Z".

The most important purpose of "Y" in the alphabet is to represent the "EU" sound. While, again, not a change to the alphabet itself, a bit of spelling reform to eliminate "EU" entirely would go a long way to make "Y" more worthwhile. "Europe" becomes "Yrope", "Eugene" becomes "Yugene", etc.

More on the topic of spelling reform again: I think cases of "ER" and "UR" could easily just be shortened to "R" and work just fine.

Where we can, of course, it would do well to just heavily simplify whichever sounds we can.

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Summ uf ttu weerd oditees maak a lot uf wrds eeseer tuu undrstand or reed at a glanss. Ttaar is a valid rgumint foor kumpleksitee ovr simplifikacin (aalowing manee wrds tu hav moor uneek spelings, and al ttat).

[Green]

The letter animations are so freaking good. Especially X's in the ending.

[brickfire]

In a few European languages, "W" is actually said as "Double-V"

[Birb]

I feel like this is an oversimplification of what the alphabet could truly be. If you believe that these are the only letters with issues, I believe you are completely forgetting all of the sounds each one makes without anyone knowing. I've used a few here, but it's simple enough to see that every rule in english does not have a specific sound designed to work well. Instead of fixing the alphabet, I say we ditch it. The oversimplification of sounds bothers me and everyone else in the world and I believe we can do something greater. The alphabet is only getting shorter and shorter when it should be expanding on sounds that many of us should know. If it doesn't, it will end up just like hebrew.

I believe we can solve this by simply adding more characters for every sound. Maybe even mix it up with characters from other languages like Cherokee. Adding more will solve quite a lot of issues seen in english already, a major one being word size. Funnily enough, even if hebrew has less characters than english, it is significantly smaller in word size. The downgrade to this is that the words are way more ambiguous than those seen in english. Adding more characters will fix both problems all while only adding one new problem. The problem more characters will fix is smaller reading and processing time. as seen before, cherokee is spelled with 8 characters in english while in cherokee it is only spelled in 3: tsa-la-gi(ᏣᎳᎩ). Now, I want to address that cherokee suffers from another problem not found in both english and hebrew and that is the lack of sounds. It's not all too many, however one of those sounds not used is an 'R' sound. Luckily, we can fix this by adding in another table for the 'R' sound.

The entire alphabet is a mysteriously long rabbit hole the more you look into it. The logic behind every word is sub-par and can only be described as monotonous and dangerously stupid. Though the alphabet has its flaws, anything made with it brings entirely new flaws. There are some words in the english, latin and greek which have the same exact spelling and sound and many which have the same spelling, different meaning and drastically different meaning. This is another problem with hebrew, because there are so little letters, words have to be given context in order to understand them. To fix this, in the new language every one of those words with the same spelling will be erased due to the different pronunciation and others with the same will be given new pronunciation.

[bobertjefferson]

W used to be called “wow” before wow was turned into w and y, also c could be used for “ch” and q can also be used like “queue” and almost always has a u next to it no matter what sound it is making. Maybe instead of removing letters you reuse them for sounds that don’t have a letter such as “sh”, “ch”, “th” and possibly a rolled r. Oh and x is used as a “z”and as an “ks”

[NotAPerson]

My guy turned alphabet lore into literal alphabet lore

[LNCsunny]

0:01 I like that every letter is doing a funny pose or dance but X is just like:🧍‍♂️

[dustbinsauce]

I love how you still address C in the alphabet even though it’s just laying lifeless and unmentioned on the floor

[ricardoludwig]

There are a couple of problems
The letter x in general is just a confusing shishow
Removing c adds quite a few complications, especially about what to do with the ch sound

[Lugmillord]

In German, W is only one syllable, but Y is three (Ypsilon)