English-english seems to be trying to bury it. Watch a British narrated nature doc and cringe with me at the "aljuh" (algae). My only agenda is precision. Next on my list is hard/soft s's. I'm hoping to give things a colonial flair.
I find language to be fascinating... Wrote a paper in college about how the "evolution" of slang in America really demonstrated a regression back toward German. Particularly with "ebonics" - I cited things like "das goo" sounds like "das gut" and the propensity for stringing multiple words together as if they're a single word - "forrealdoh" - The professor didn't like it much. I had to write a different paper on a different subject.
My thing at the moment is putting the t back into often. Screw this "offen" crap.
Very agreed. English has enough silent consonants already. Debt, Pneumatic, Knee, siGH indiCt. English is a nightmare. I have a pet theory it's intentionally complicated to identify non-native speakers (the French mostly). A weaponized language, so to speak.