Re: Philolsophy
I can't help but read long-s as if it has a lisping quality to it. It's like the orthographical equivalent of a lisp.
Personally, I'm glad we got rid of it. I'd also be cool with getting rid of most of the idiosyncratic complications of English spelling. At a minimum I see no reason to prefer "orthography" to "orthografy" (Spanish does just fine with ortografía)... there are plenty of simplifications which wouldn't upend the entire system (simplifications to consonants would be much easier than fixing the vowels for a number of reasons).
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