English is a dragon of a language, dozing atop an enormous mountain of phonemes. What if they were all melted down and minted into something more consistent? And then we tried to speak it? The results sound a bit like a Welsh accent. [YouTube]
Phonetically consistent English
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With Buildix Pro, you don't have to be a pro developer to make a killer website
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Send untouched files and useless apps to the dump with this app for Macs
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