In English extra letters could solve a problem as many letters are pronounced differently depending on context making it not very intuitive to spell some words.
That would be kind of going against language’s natural evolution.
If you can live with horrible changes like million-milliard-billion-biliard changed to million-billion-trillion-quadrillion you can do actually convenient changes.
Every other language except English does it the old way. And translating one system to another is a garbage experience
Folks can’t handle the current alphabet because it’s being used in the shittiest way possible
Multi-century archaic spelling, preserved spellings in loaned words despite the sounds being different, hell there was a point where Big Dictionary was shoehorning random letters into words to make them more adjacent to their latin counterparts
By all means you could triple the amount of letters in the alphabet and make it work, but as of now it’s kinda just the worst case of sunk-cost to ever exist
Many people can’t handle the existing alphabet, imagine for a second if they have to deal with extra letters.
In English extra letters could solve a problem as many letters are pronounced differently depending on context making it not very intuitive to spell some words.
It’s a menace for somone who grew with phonetically consistent language
That would be kind of going against language’s natural evolution. Many words used to be spelled with way more letters than they are today.
If you can live with horrible changes like million-milliard-billion-biliard changed to million-billion-trillion-quadrillion you can do actually convenient changes.
Every other language except English does it the old way. And translating one system to another is a garbage experience
Folks can’t handle the current alphabet because it’s being used in the shittiest way possible
Multi-century archaic spelling, preserved spellings in loaned words despite the sounds being different, hell there was a point where Big Dictionary was shoehorning random letters into words to make them more adjacent to their latin counterparts
By all means you could triple the amount of letters in the alphabet and make it work, but as of now it’s kinda just the worst case of sunk-cost to ever exist