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LilMissAnonyMOUSE sometimes it is a shame that some words become archaic at all, and you have to wonder what the cause of this was, especially if the old word was more economical, for example a word like «whence» ... that would allow you to just say or write one word / one syllable / six characters, whereas the with a modern alternative you must use at least two words / syllables (from where, from which) ... and in turn with «whence» becoming archaic people forgot how to use it, so if someone does rarely try to use it now, they do so incorrectly, prefixing it with «from» even though adding that is just redundant and unnecessary. Sometimes if you like brevity then a word like «whence» makes more sense, but nowadays people may be less likely to know what you mean, so you are tempted to use two or more alternative words instead.
It's funny, I was also recently wondering when / how / who got to decide which letters would be in the Latin alphabet, and how anyone would go about amending it today to add a couple more letters or whatnot. I can see it being easier for new words to just gradually gain traction, and then there is no choice but for the dictionary editors to add them once they become ubiquitous. But an alphabet seems to be a different animal (?) even though there seems to be no official organization controlling either words or letters or punctuation marks. It seems it woud be an impossible task to reform an alphabet to eliminate redundancies and add more vowel sound characters (with diacritics, or just wholly new glyphs), or consonants to allow less reliance on digraphs, and standardize it across any dialect of English in particular (and possibly any language using extensions of the basic Latin alphabet), and then in turn have that propagate into keyboard layouts with more keys, so that no one ever has to remember exotic keyboard shortcuts to form letters (never mind extra punctuation that is very logical ... sometimes single quotes or apostrophes, especialy those rendered in minimalist computer fonts, appearing near double quotes often don't look right, so guillemets make it much simpler to differentiate an outer quotation) that are not directly assigned their own dedicated key, having to use workarounds such as "compose" keys or custom keyboard layouts instead.
I also often notice birds chipring outside my window in the mornings, before the alarm goes off, before my curtains are opened, and it is nice ot see which ones are speaking, when you recognize the different sounds of cardinals, titmice, chickadees, wrens, hawks and more. I absolutely adore hearing them! 😊
