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That's impossible to some degree because English pronunciation varies so much across dialects.

Or rather, you could make writing phonetic but then spelling would have to vary by dialect.

I just realized it's done precisely like that in my language! Never even thought about it. But there is a standard "written" version of the language and dialects are mostly spoken.

Isn't that true for every language?

Nope. Most languages have no written standard, and some have more than one (E.g., American vs. British vs. Australian English, or Nynorsk vs. Bokmal Norwegian).

please specify the language so people can learn things, it's the internet

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