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If you read read as read and not read, you have to re-read read as read so you can read read correctly so it can then make sense

Yeah, but at least you don’t have to learn whether a fridge is male or female.

People who speak English as their first language don't even get this stuff right

Welcome to English!
“What are the rules?”
(Satanic laughing)

It's easier to understand when you look at English history and realize that English is essentially three different languages (old Saxon, Norse, and Norman) badly put together (a great example of this being meats having different names than the animals they come from, since the people farming said animals spoke Saxon, but the people eating them spoke Norman), with plenty of Latin, Greek, French, and other languages sprinkled on top, all written with a limited alphabet that's incapable of properly reflecting the pronunciation of those languages' words.

It doesn't help, though ,that at some point the English alphabet got simplified with things like ō becoming things like oo, without taking into account that things like oo were already being used to represent different sounds, or that at one point over a period of a few decades in the middle ages for some reason all English speakers seemed to decide to randomly switch around the pronunciation of all their vowels without changing how they wrote them (!?), or that, while all languages borrow words from others, unlike most others English for some reason doesn't bother to adapt their orthography or grammar (a French or Catalan speaker will have no problem understanding why façade is written like that and pronounced fassade instead of fackade, for instance, but I'm sure most English speakers won't be so lucky, especially if they write it facade... and then you've got things like fiancé, or the plural of radius being radii, and so on)... and you end up with the oos in book, blood, door, and boot all being pronounced differently... and, for some reason (probably the borrowing one), the one in brooch being pronounced a particular fifth different way... 🤷‍♂️

Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

That was thoroughly thought through.

touch and though really show the fucking weirdness of English best.

I hate that its the world language. Where did Esperanto go. Its an actually made up language, composed or many ones, easy to learn.

Language sucks. The history of English, German, damn Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, are all so damn weird. And we literally live a few days by bike apart from each other.

Why do there need to be multiple languages really? Its such a barrier.

If everyone would just learn esperanto, we could focus on learning something actually useful, like signing (gesture language). Then we have two languages we can talk with about everyone in the world.

English is the Taco Bell menu of languages

I'll just leave this here... 😈

The Chaos (poem)

Thou thought thoroughly. Though throughout tough times, through tenacity, 'tis taught.

Trough!

They forgot about "throat"

It gets dumber when you realize stonks is not only a real word, but it's used to describe military armament supplies like rockets and mortars

wait until this guy hears of the word fuck

Just memorize them by rote. There's nothing actually connecting them via spelling; they're completely different words with completely different backgrounds and that's a thing you have to get used to in English.

Remember English is a creole of a bunch of different languages and that's why it is the way it is. It doesn't really have rules like that aside from some basic grammar.

Hahhaa tell that to the Shi poem in mandarin. 94 times the frikin shi word!

Of course, this can be confusing, but wouldn't every single language have some confusing parts? As a non native English speaker who tried to learn other languages (without much success for now) I find English to be actually rather easy.

What would you propose as an easier alternative for a "universal" language?