Pikachu
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Due to unfortunate historical circumstances, the English language has become the international language that all educated people on this planet are supposed to know. The problem is that English is not suitable for that purpose. Like Chinese, English uses symbols instead of a phonetic alphabet. Then people have to learn each English word twice - how it is pronounced and how it is written. English do use the Latin alphabet to draw their symbols, but that doesn't help much since there is no correlation between how a word is spelled and how it is pronounced. This has to be changed soon if English shall have a chance to maintain its position as the most important international language much longer. The severe threat from the increasing popularity of Esperanto must not be underestimated!
So now I ask all the British and American people out there to tell their governments to initiate a modernization of the English written language. If UK and US takes the initiative, I am sure the rest of the world will follow the good example. Thank you for your cooperation!

So now I ask all the British and American people out there to tell their governments to initiate a modernization of the English written language. If UK and US takes the initiative, I am sure the rest of the world will follow the good example. Thank you for your cooperation!
