New invented languages that seek to be international also include new writing systems deliberately planned to be 'user-friendly'. Writing systems change, and this series will describe how they change, and why they do. Some specific national reforms are described in greater detail, to show how writing systems are related to social change, and to illustrate themes and theories that should blow Anglo-Saxon orthographic parochialism out of the mud. These accounts show that orthography can no more be considered unchangeable by human interference than any other construction of the human mind. They show the importance of spelling reforms and radical modernisation of scripts for developing countries in the twentieth century.
Readers can then look at English spelling with fresh eyes - or for the first time .
Further pages will describe the English spelling system. A full description is hilarious in places - it also makes clear that improvements are possible, and clarifies what they might be. There are many common assumptions about English spelling , and arguments that get repeated but never tested. The worst features of English spelling are not esssential to the English language itself. English spelling improvement may require only clearing up the inconsistencies and what is in effect clutter, from that basic structure.