Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "Why is there a B in DOUBT? - THE MEN WHO RUINED ENGLISH SPELLING" video.

This guy thinks scholars are "irritating?" He can't hear his own smug self. Spelling is about MEANING. This dude wants the spelling of doubt to divorce it from dubious and indubitable. If we go full-bore phonetic, which is what he's pushing here, pterodactyls will seem to be close relatives of terrapins. He wants to make the language ROOTLESS.
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@Jack Knife "Just learn, french, Italian and Latin at the same time easy" You've got some funny ideas about punctuation and capitalization but I agree with your point. I'd suggest a corollary though: Just learn any two Romance languages and you'll learn pretty much all you need to know about Latin. I learned Spanish because it was taught in 6th grade through highschool in Maverick County on the Rio Grande during the first half of the 60s, and because it was spoken all around me while I was growing up. The only other language taught was French (only in highschool) and I'm biased but I believe my French teacher was the best in the Southwest. That was over half a century ago but some things stay with you if they were intense enough. Ever since then I've known that if a word in Spanish is pretty close to the same word in French then there's probably a Latin word behind it. This is even more likely if there's also a similar-looking word in English; chances are we got the root from Romano-Celtic, which was the lingua franca in Britain during the 350+ years when Roman troops occupied the island. Even though Americans are generally proud of not knowing any language but English, I think I'd wither away if I were deprived of the fun of looking at the relationships between our language and all the others.
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