They all sound the same.In day to day conversation people can tell the difference between each meaning using in context clues with no issue; so why do there need to be 3 different spelling for the same word??
>>24940745Homophones, man.
Each one has a distinct etymology and comes from a word pronounced quite distinctly from the rest. And trying to make one spelling for homophones seems pointless. You would really have a hard time with French if this sort of thing triggers you
>>24940745No, they are pronounced differently. You did not notice?
>>24940745>Why the fuck is this necessary?To identify ESLs and retards on the internet.
>>24940745There totally different words and their would be much more confusion if they're was one spelling for all three. My beautiful tongue has taken so much abuse in the name of oversimplifying for retards already, please don't dumb it down further.
>>24940745Brown moment
>>24942026ESLs are usually a lot more sound on that particular issue because they learn by written word, not by sound
>>24940745wait till this guy discovers french
Remember that pronunciations have drifted pretty massively over the centuries. Words that are homophones now were not so before the great vowel shift, even forgetting spelling.
>mixed up who's and whose in a text to a family member a year ago>still grimace at it today
>>24940745Tonal English would solve this.
>>24940755what did you just call me???
>>24940745I fuck it up on occasion while typing but only if I'm using something that doesn't have a grammar checker. Weirdly enough I almost never fuck it up while writing with pen and paper, there is probably a reason for that but who knows.
>>24942092It's only a temporary problem, anyway. The unfortunate negrofication of English will reduce it to "der" and "dey" and "deys".
