Interesting Experiment

Why don't we get one of the people at the Academie Francais,
responsible for French spelling, to use the same reasoning to design a
spelling system for English (one that takes into account all the
sensible objections to reform)?

I _don't_ mean to apply a French spelling system to English. I mean
ask them to apply their skills to help create a spelling system for
English that is as regular as the French spelling system. A Briton
could not do this -- such an undertaking is athwart his intellectual
tradition.

~Iain