Quote Originally Posted by Willie the Duck View Post
People changing the very way they function in their day-to-day lives requires a lot of buy-in*, when for the most part people run into other people who pronounce or mispronounce things the same way that they do. As globalism has reduced borders and cheap/free cross-border communication has made people more aware of the world outside their own neighborhoods, things have changed, but not much nor as fast as some predicted.
*See countries slowly change to decimalized currency or the metric system, or for a more direct corollary, how people haven't switched to languages like Esperanto, despite it supposedly solving communication problems.
I meant rather than use "chuh", "REE", and such who are still really ambiguous, not as a replacement for the roman alphabet.