Regularising the irregular

LOL, I see MrP had trouble understanding the new standard spelling
In fact, that was a joke... It is pretty difficult to read, because no one is used to that kind of spelling. This pretty much demonstrate that not even such a change would be possible in practice. You could teach children that way, but what would adults do? It wouldn't be possible in practice, if you wanted to try. So English will remain this way... and maybe in 1000 years it won't have anything to do with the way it's written!

@Jim: Well, I was referring to English verbs... Italian verbs? Yeah, you have to learn how to conjugate them all, so it's a pain in the neck. Thank God I learned it naturally, because it seems so complex to me that  I don't think I would be able to learn how to speak Italian as a foreign language.

<(How often do you need to say "I strove", "I sought", and so on? And when you do, you can say "I did my best", "I looked for", etc. instead.)>

 

How often do you need to say "it was a marvelous party" and not "it was a great party"?

An ESL learner can avoid this grammatical difficulty by using the regular verb "look for" instead of the irregular verb "seek".

 That may be, but I'll bet that, even so, many many teachers will still want the student to learn the whole list of irregular verbs

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