So, full disclosure, I hate the English language. I’m a native speaker, but it’s so complicated. Look at yacht, like who even came up with that garbage? It doesn’t even sound like it should and the word itself makes no sense.
Not only that, but it’s a bad default language. It rips out so much culture. Not only that, it’s just the knock off version of Latin, French, Spanish. There’s probably more, I just can’t remember them right now so I’m sorry
Anywho, questions:
What do you think about the English Language?
What are some interesting quips about the English Language?
because the english likes to throw in random p’s. Like psychiatrist, or psyche, or… I don’t know I’m running out of examples but none of it makes much sense. And how is “y” a vowel but also not at the same time? Does that really make sense? And why are vowels so important anyways?
it’s almost as though they made up half of the language in the moment so they could feel superior to whomever they were arguing with. AND WHY DOES WHOM EVEN EXIST.
OMG, I’ve always wondered this myself! They say you’re supposed to say “whom” instead of “who”, but why? The word itself sounds grammatically incorrect and doesn’t sound like it belongs in the English dictionary.
I think whom is to be used when you don’t know who the person/subject is. “Whom are you?” For example. At least I think that’s what it’s for. It took 20 minutes of googling to find out. I just don’t understand why it even happened. There was no reason for it, it’s useless. Barely anyone knows what it means.
that’s how you spell it? I thought it was just… flem? You know, how a normal person would spell it.
RIGHT?? And why is there “ph” and not just “f” when “f’s” sound is the exact same as “ph”?
It’s funny, because most ‘native speakers’ complain like this because they don’t know where the different parts of the language originate from Most of the weird parts of english actually are like that because that was what they were like in their original languages, like how goose is geese but moose isn’t meese because the words come from two different languages
If anything, English is one of the simpler languages out there. It doesn’t have very many irregulars (i’m looking at you, spanish past participle), it’s one of the only languages without gendered objects, and it’s read left-to-right like most languages.
That it’s fine? A lot of languages branch off Latin and they are all different in their own ways, no reason to hate on them.
English when we talk in so is neutral so the communication (the real explanation of your sentence) comes from the emphasis in your tone, that’s what makes it unique, especially from French because when you speak french, it’s all more blunt in a way?
I think you have to understand the English is actually very complex and some of the words they use are French or Spanish, old Latin, just pronounced in an English way.
All words and the way they are spelled all make sense when you look at them. Letters are silent in many words and maybe they could be spelled differently but at this point, it’s just apart of the language and takes effort to understand, especially when learning the language, and no one has time to change all those words to make them make sense. There is just no reason.
It may be confusing but again, the words stem from when it ws created, so you never know how they pronounced it before, language just as anything of culture evolves through time.
Most languages come from other languages. Ever heard of the ‘romance’ languages? Germanic? English is a Germanic language, which means it’s derived from proto-germanic languages, just like German and Dutch.
