I want to see English become mor fonetik and mor regular.

As I watched my son learn to speak, then later to read and write, I paid attention to his misspellings and they all made perfect sense if you approached the language phonetically.

The first sentence he wrote for me was:

“my daddy and i tocd on d woki toki” (“My Daddy and I talked on the walkie talkie.”)

At first confusing, but it omits all the silent, or effectively silent because native speakers usually omit the sound, or abbreviate it so much that non-native speakers would miss it if they didn’t know it was there. Like “l” in “talked”.

And don’t get me started on irregular conjugations.