vijayjohn wrote:I don't see why it has to be so personal as I don't think the message is ever intended that way. The way I understand it is rather as a statement on the necessity of capitalization in general. I mean, how many scripts even have this concept of "capitalization"? Roman script, Cyrillic script, Greek script, and Armenian script are the only ones that I can think of that do; Wikipedia says that the Coptic, Adlam, Varang Kshiti, Cherokee, and Osage scripts also have it. So basically, alphabets that were either ultimately derived from Greek script or inspired by Roman script. As far as I can tell, all other scripts are unicase.
Not being unicase is the defining aspect of bicameral scripts, so something would be lost if they became unicameral. Thus, it's important to not let that happen. If it happens organically with time as the people in language regulation committees are replaced by new ones that don't care about it, nobody can stop that, but it will eat away the things that make the language and/or writing system special. If it happens prematurely (eg. language regulation committees being pressured into accepting new and previously incorrect spellings or grammatical forms as correct), those things won't even be replaced by anything else, only lost.
Combined with loanwords replacing native terms, eventually it'll lead to the language going extinct because it won't be anything like it was. English has gone through this already at least a couple of times, so it isn't perceived as destructively as most other languages, and it's spoken by so many people as a first, second, third, fourth or whatever language that there's no way its previous forms will be lost completely.
Now, consider how Finnish. In spite of being a language known to exist by probably everyone in the western world, has only about 5 million native speakers (including all the dialects that aren't even entirely mutually intelligible with the standard language), and few actually learn it to the point of fluency as a second language even if they live in Finland; there was just yesterday in the news about how the number of Arabic-speakers has increased massively in recent years due to refugees. Obviously, most of them have no intention of learning Finnish to anywhere near fluency, which would be fine if they eventually moved back to Arab countries... but everyone knows that not a single immigrant ever wants to leave Europe. They claim to one day want to go back to their home countries, but they never do. As a result, more Arabic loanwords will inevitably end up in Finnish and every other language spoken in Europe, and in informal contexts grammar will be simplified to accommodate the Arab immigrants...
If the Finnish alphabet became unicameral, that would be a victory for the Arab invaders/immigrants.