English is a terrible language, that’s what you get when you cram Latin, German, and French together and mix in vocabulary stolen from around the world. Nothing makes sense, nothing is pronounced phonetically, and it’s the only language in the world (that I’m aware of) that has spelling contests since everything is so unintuitive!
The spelling is bad mostly due to internal pronunciation changes in the language which weren’t reflected by updates to the spelling. That foreign spelling aren’t changed to match the native ones is largely due to the fact that the native ones had already become detached from pronunciation and speakers had developed a tolerance for ambiguity.
don’t you forget gaelic, which is where english gets the usage of “do” with personal pronouns in a way that’s generally omitted in latin, german, and french.
English is a terrible language, that’s what you get when you cram Latin, German, and French together and mix in vocabulary stolen from around the world. Nothing makes sense, nothing is pronounced phonetically, and it’s the only language in the world (that I’m aware of) that has spelling contests since everything is so unintuitive!
The spelling is bad mostly due to internal pronunciation changes in the language which weren’t reflected by updates to the spelling. That foreign spelling aren’t changed to match the native ones is largely due to the fact that the native ones had already become detached from pronunciation and speakers had developed a tolerance for ambiguity.
don’t you forget gaelic, which is where english gets the usage of “do” with personal pronouns in a way that’s generally omitted in latin, german, and french.
We might also be the only language where people have to use a thesaurus.
French has spelling contests too but more because of the fucked up grammar
I don’t respect fr*nch enough to think about it. Just thinking about “oiseau” makes me annoyed