I know, frale is just claiming that English written in another script isnโt English.
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Wait why are those Ws being removed? Theyโre pretty clearly pronounced to me.
Is
a joke to you guys? Why use all manner of weird letters when thereโs already IPA?
I may be a bit biased as all English textbooks in Finland show the pronunciation with IPA versions of the words, and writing Finnish with the IPA alphabet is almost the same as the (extended) latin alphabet (thereโs very few things in Finnish not written exactly as they are pronounced).
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My point wasnโt with past tense - it was for โethโ instead of โsโ at the end of present-tense verbs. For example: โSometimes a parrot talkethโ (instead of โtalksโ); Descartes (in the English translation of Meditations) describing someone falling asleep as โhe who noddeth in a chairโ (instead of โnodsโ. The word with the most definitions in English is โrunโ, and three different forms of this word are: runs, runs and runโs, meaning does run, multiple runs and belonging to the run (all valid in the right context). Changing the first of these to use the older English โethโ or โthโ would render these as โ runeth (or โrunnethโ), runs and runโs '.
What you are describing is literally just changing the way English is spelled. 
I do think changing some of the letters in English (to using IPA, for instance) would really improve things, but I think a more gradual change would be the best suggestion. Thereโs no way most people would even consider changing all the letters in English, but adding or changing some would be useful.
British pronunciation (I think).
Also, hereโs something I shouldโve dropped in this thread earlier:
What does that mean? I presume itโs a text abverration but Iโm not sure which one.
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Itโs not an abbrevation
Then what is it? What does it mean?
My hot take:
Telling someone โoh, donโt worry, it wonโt hurt a bitโ before a painful procedure is belgiuming horrible! It is lying in the face of the one on whom the procedure is about to be conducted and undermines their trust in the long run. Also, I think it is better to let someone know that the procedure will hurt and allow them to prepare themselves mentally for the pain than lie to them resulting in them getting caught by surprise.
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โItโs just a little sting, you wonโt even feel itโ
proceeds to hurt like belgium and itโs sore for two weeks
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Theyโre trying to reassure the patient and sometimes the pain is only there if you focus on it. Otherwise, just try to always prepare your mind for the worst and youโll be fine.
Imagine not knowing how to read รฐe letters รพorn or eรพ, couldnโt be me.
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Itโs potentially useful for children, but probably not as useful in the long term as helping them get into a mindset that helps them deal with the pain.
Or they could also help the child grow to have a hard outer layer - such as chitin - so theyโd get hurt less.