one syllable should be enough for anyone

The secret language that they don’t want you to know: Oneglish (“1NGLISH”)—return English to its ancient roots with a new one-syllable version! Save hours every day. Also: how many syllables are in the English language, anyway? Answer: probably at least 972,465, if you believe the assumptions below!

Apr 24, 2017

Culture, Language

1GLISH, 1NGLISH, doubleplus good, doubleplus ungood, Eng, English, NEWSPEAK, one syllable should be enough for anyone, ONEGLISH, return English to its roots, single syllable, single syllable English, ungood

The issue: English has a large number of words with multiple syllables. We could save so much time if all these words were replaced with unique single–syllable equivalents! Proposal: For example, in the section above, we would change the following words: English -> Eng number -> noim multiple -> mult syllable(s) –> syllb(s) replace(d) -> roup(ed) unique ->…