Ñ letter spelling: it should be eliminated?
Do you think is annoying to spell the letter Ñ for a english speaker? it should be eliminated?
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You should be thankful!!
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l hope you're feeling better about the ñ now! lol
It's okay to invent your own alphabet.
Good luck if anyone will understand you. 
Personally I find the letter x annoying in English but hey it is the alphabet and who am I to argue with that? Ñ is a letter in itself, it is not just the letter n with a tilde on it for accent. I suggest you just get used to using it if you want to learn Spanish.
As the use of ñ or n can completely change the meaning of words I think it is quite important to keep it.
An example from a recent post años as opposed to anos. 
I am very sorry. I have never said this quite this way in this Forum, and I don't intend to make a habit of this, but this is it. Of all the idiotic posts I have seen in the Forum, this one just about takes the cake. What a stupid thing to ask, for goodness sake! Come on! Please think before you type!
Personally I like the ñ - specifically because it is different. I can't explain why but for me it's part of the attraction of learning Spanish. 
Well if pleasing English speakers is the goal, why not abandon the Spanish language entirely and simply switch to speaking/writing English?
Es como si los hispanoparlantes dijéramos que hay que eliminar la "W".
Haha, no.
What a funny thread
Now I was just talking with my Egyptian friend lovely, now if you find the "ñ" annoying, what about all those lines ...make no sense at all
It is pretty much like putting an accent mark on a vowel for me. If you really do want to eliminate ñ from your vocabulary, you could use the "gn", which can potentially make the ñ, but in languages such as Italian.
Maybe we should do away with the w in the English alphabet since it is confusing because it sounds like double u ???
I have no doubt that there are many things that confuse, frustate and irritate foreigners about the English language, too, so should we start messing around with it and changing our language, including our alphabet to placate them ? (Rhetorical question)
Somehow I think that many English speaking people would take exception to the idea so instead we just expect people to learn English as it is practised today ...warts and all (ie: the good and the bad!)
When you are/one is starting to learn a new language it will start to seem strange but that doesn't make it wrong or bad; just different! Out of respect for the natives it is usually better not to start finding fault with their language After all they could do the same with ours 
Finally a good principle or rule of thumb is: the better you understand the less you criticise! This goes for many things; languages, understanding people, relationships etc..
You have to learn to love it, like r and rolling that guy, ñ is great, and I must say that I love X and it's probably my favorite letter of all (of course studying Chinese helps)
To me , its not that hard i find it very easy...
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