We Australians have been saying youse since long before youse came up with it. It's typical Australian incomprehensible yobbo speech. Which raises the question of why Arwon says it.
Personally I'd have "youse" or "yous" accepted as the standard second-person plural pronoun. I'm tired of being told my usage is somehow wrong. There's nothing wrong with "how are yous doing?" or "where are yous?" It eliminates ambiguity in many sentences.
Make everybody adopt Yat. For instance, the word "family" must be replaced with "yamomma'n'dem". Or, make everybody write it in the Arabic script, because it's prettier.
I wouldn't make it entirely phonetic, but I'd get rid of as many irregular pronunciations as possible. Also I'd try to come up with a good gender-ambiguous personal pronoun. Can't think of a good one ad hoc, though.
Why the hell would you add genders? It substantially increases the amount of relevant vocabulary, and is totally pointless.
Adding something like -ova to feminine surnames is unnecessary; just look to see if there is a 'Ms' or 'Mrs' beforehand, and if there isn't, assume it's a lady.
Phonetic spellings are another stupid idea. The point of maintaining current spelling is to allow people to connect words due to the presence of suffixes and prefixes. Yes, there are a few dumb ones, but these are few and far between in terms of the entire English vocabulary.
And to note, I'm fluent in two languages, so I'm not just speaking from the monolingual American perspective.
Phonetic spellings are another stupid idea. The point of maintaining current spelling is to allow people to connect words due to the presence of suffixes and prefixes. Yes, there are a few dumb ones, but these are few and far between in terms of the entire English vocabulary.
Phonetic spelling isn't a stupid idea, considering the fact that it's the goal of every major language writing system that's created today There's plenty, plenty examples of dumb ones, and more importantly, we simply don't have enough vowel letters to cover the rich vowel system of english. You can still connect suffixes and prefixes and the words don't need to be the same - see portuguese <nação> and <nacional>; Welsh doesn't even enforce stable initial letters: "nation" is <cenedl>, but "in a nation" is <yng nghenedl>!
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