also if anyone really  wanted to read arabic (ottoman variant) they can learn it themselves. it's not kanji ffs! there are tonnes of material on the internet (especially videos on youtube). 

so "things getting illegible overnight" argument is **bullshit** of epic proportions. 

and forcing people to learn this obsolete ~~alphabet~~ abjad is retarded.



>the alphabet changes eventually rendered anything written before 1928 completely illegible to the vast majority of modern Turkish citizens. 

All %8 of citizens could read the things back then. Literacy jumped to +90% after the reform.

I'll be concerned with he starts replacing the word for Friday with *gurpgork.*

&gt;the alphabet changes eventually rendered anything written before 1928 completely illegible to the vast majority of modern Turkish citizens. 

All %8 of citizens could read the things back then. Literacy jumped to +90% after the reform.

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