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by veqq 373 days ago
By tautology, if you split the language, you split the language. Different groups will exhibit divergent evolution.

> current orthography is highly divergent from the actual spoken language, which is a problem in its own right

The orthography is no more divergent to an Australians speech as to an American's speech, let alone a Londoner or Oxfordian. But why would it be a problem?