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Toward a Common Alphabet: There Is No Need for Menedzhment

Published as a 2026 preprint, the essay argues that languages are converging toward a common Latin-based script, with English functioning as a default pidgin. It identifies three strategies for societies: absorb loanwords as-is, Latinize with local extensions, or resist and incur growing costs; it also contends that linguistic purity offers no advantage and suggests Hebrew was constructed rather than revived. The work discusses emoji as a modern sign of logographic influence and contrasts script with music notation to explain why script can change without erasing content, noting that the author offers ideas rather than implementations.

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