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Jipí wrote:

Celinceithir wrote:phonetic language

<nitpick>
The only languages that aren't phonetic are those not spoken You mean it doesn't have an obviously phonemic orthography.
</nitpick>

Indeed ~__~

It's an interesting idea, but I'd be immensely opposed to any such change. Sure, Irish is not the most apparently phonetic language in the world, but in truth, it's rather more systematic than English, and has had reforms as recently as the late forties (consider modern beiriú versus prior beirbhiug...