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English isn’t any better when it comes to spelling. It’s terribly inconsistent and in desperate need of several reforms.
English is like 5 languages hiding in a trenchcoat.
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- French
- old English
- German
- Spanish
- Norse
Probably because English borrowed so many words from French and other languages.
More like had them forced on us when the normans invaded
You can cough, though, through, and laugh your way through it.
“I know right”
You can still pronounce all the letters if you aren’t a coward.
They were afraid the Germans next door would seem smarter due to the longer word lengths, but didn’t want to have such difficulties pronouncing everything, so they chose a compromise by just making words look longer than they actually are.
Eaux
A teacher I had used to joke that he didn’t have a last name whenever he visited France. His last name was Høst
There has never been a more malicious act of linguistic inbreeding sabotage than the French bastardizing Latin with German and then body-horroring their spelling abominations on to English.
its the wine talking.
