Why do I use simplified spelling in French?

Creation: 2020-05-28 | Updated: 2020-05-28 | Epistemic status: ~54% | Status: quick writing of my thinking

Object-level:

It would take less time to learn.

I don’t think the signal of “how capable someone is at learning a complicated language” overweights that.

I prefer using English.....

Meta-level:

I think we would benefit to adopt a norm of moving away from inadequate equilibria

Not really relevant to by decision process, but: I was initially pretty averse to it, and now find it very aesthetically pleasing.

More information from me:

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https://www.facebook.com/mati.roy.09/posts/10157948032459579⁠

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More information:

Common objections:

https://www.leslibraires.ca/livres/l-orthographe-un-carcan-une-deconstruction-mario-periard-9782924327920.html⁠

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From

https://www.facebook.com/mati.roy.09/posts/10158622708949579⁠

If you voice the words and pronounce all letters when reading simplified French, it makes it easier to process them. And after a couples days / weeks of this, I didn't have to voice it anymore, so the transition was not that expensive.

When I have something important to say, I sometimes write it in traditional French (and often in English). Ex.:

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https://www.facebook.com/mati.roy.09/posts/10158577044824579⁠
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https://www.facebook.com/mati.roy.09/posts/10158248853369579⁠
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Am probably loosing readers indeed, at least in the short term.

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