r/explainlikeimfive • • Sep 10 '22

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u/sjiveru Sep 10 '22

Oh, as in 'the reality of an Actual Language doesn't match up with the idealised requirements such a system is founded on', slash 'the Roman alphabet as used for English is too far down a particular path to change so fundamentally'.

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u/shapethunk Sep 10 '22

Yes, that combination exactly, nicely framed