>>>Not sure who thought all this up, but is it better than the simple Japanese approach? I guess time will tell.
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>>It looks perfect, and the only reason the Japanese didn't come up with it is that their alphabet soup would be much more complicated, the only reason being the alphabet itself.
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>Like all the rest of you, they need to adopt English. (Ow, my cheek hurts).

Prepare the adoption papers. It will be renamed engrbian, though.