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Do we really need to understand how to read and write baybayin and other related scripts? I don't know what others may think, but imposing a indic-based script to a nation that has already adopted a Latin-based script for mostly everything doesn't seem to be a worthwhile undertaking. Especially considering that in our local dialects, as far as we can tell, we have no recorded use of an indic-based script, which defeats the purpose of learning it.
I have no issue with it though I think it should remain as a novelty instead of forcing us all to use it.
Agree here. It's cool and fun to some extent but it's extremely limiting as well considering modern Filipino borrows various words that won't work well with the alphabet.
This is concerning to me as well. I hope there would be a standardized, modernized version of baybayin that is maintained by some governing body (not necessarily a government body, it could be a committee composed of academics and scholars) that would sort this kind of issue, and a lot more (such as how it can be supported on computers and smartphones). Text entry is also an issue I want to be standardized (providing a set, or several, of standards on how text entry should be handled).