Mark Rosenfelder

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If English was written like Chinese (1999)

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The English spelling system is such a pain, we’d might as well switch to hanzi — Chinese characters. How should we go about it?

The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)

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Caja de herramientas para construir idiomas (en español; traducido por Renato Montes) O Kit de Construção de Línguas (em português; traduzido por Gustavo Pereira) Il Kit di Costruzione di Linguaggi (in italiano; tradotto per Daniele "MadMage" Calisi) Der Sprachbaukasten (auf Deutsch; übersetzt von Carsten Becker)