Why pick a non-English based spelling system for your country

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Why should other countries pick a non-Latin (English-friendly) alphabet, when Englsh is the lingua franca of the world?

Perhaps because it doesn't even work for native-speakers of English,
since they ignore it.

It's spelled "Bei_ j _ing." Yet, the preferred pronunciation is as
though the spelling was "Bei_ zh _ing"!

Why?

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