"For context: A 20% saving in English and French alone could prevent the cutting of approximately 100 million trees annually, as these are the world's most widely printed languages."
by New_Drummer9910
"For context: A 20% saving in English and French alone could prevent the cutting of approximately 100 million trees annually, as these are the world's most widely printed languages."
by New_Drummer9910
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**Data Source:** Based on Linguistic Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) Ratio Analysis.
**Metric:** Estimated reduction in printed page count if orthography was 100% phonetic.
Which regions write % before the number?
How to you spell a language phonetically if the language has more phonemes than the latin alphabet has graphemes?
This might require more trees (or Kindles) not less. It could work for people who speak the language but can’t read or write it. This wouldn’t teach them writing, so they’d have to print more books for that. It could make reading much slower. Now you have to also print double the books, because some people are going to want one, some the other, and some will want both. Children will not be able to learn to write, dogs and cats will be living in sin together, mayonnaise will appear on peanut butter sandwiches.
Phonetically according according to what?