Is there some summary of this? I watched the first couple minutes but the case made there was kind of weak (removing “c” would be confusing sometimes, but keeping it is also confusing in different ways and if we’re changing spelling we can fix these issues) and I’m not invested in this enough to watch a 30 minute video to find out if it makes a compelling case.
The main thing is that the soft c sound is voiceless, whereas s is often voiced (same sound as z). I asked a linguist friend about it, and you could probably get away with changing the spelling of words that use s for a voiced sound to instead use the letter z.
Oh then I don’t buy the argument of the video then. Not that there aren’t real patterns here, but they vary by dialect and if consistent can be fixed by swapping to z as your friend says. C still seems redundant to me.
c is actually an important, non-redundant letter:
Is there some summary of this? I watched the first couple minutes but the case made there was kind of weak (removing “c” would be confusing sometimes, but keeping it is also confusing in different ways and if we’re changing spelling we can fix these issues) and I’m not invested in this enough to watch a 30 minute video to find out if it makes a compelling case.
The main thing is that the soft c sound is voiceless, whereas s is often voiced (same sound as z). I asked a linguist friend about it, and you could probably get away with changing the spelling of words that use s for a voiced sound to instead use the letter z.
Oh then I don’t buy the argument of the video then. Not that there aren’t real patterns here, but they vary by dialect and if consistent can be fixed by swapping to z as your friend says. C still seems redundant to me.