it's irregular af and it makes no sense at moments

why is it forty but not fourty? and what's up with the fact that the spelling doesn't match the pronunciation like half of the time not to mention the amount of irregular past participles

and why is "read" the past tense of "read"?

I mean we're ahead of the curve on swearing and the flexibility of the word "like", like… () but fr

and why is it "spelt" and "spelled"? why is there no standard spelling? I've gotten into like three debates over "spelt" v "spelled"

and why is the plural of "ox" "oxen" but not "oxes" since we say "boxes" as the plural for "box"?

+ also why do we steal from french so much? like 1/4 of our vocab has french origins. coup d'état, sous-chef, art, paint, justice, judge, theatre, arcade, arch, vault, veal, beef, harmony, beige, maroon, blue, television, oxygen… the list goes on

english what's GOOD

I mean not to mention the language is quite unnecessarily flexible. you can make a new "word" easily

It really makes no sense

I couldn't imagine having to learn it as a second language and I have mad respect for people that do

ls;skdsmkdmkmkmkfmkg
you are everything als;almklfl,f,fmks

edit: English does suck tho. i get confused by it every single day

I love it. It's way easier to learn than Portuguese, Yndda. Trust me

English is so simple to me. It's literally my best class in school (+ it's my second language I'm learning).



edit: It's even easier for me than my native language, german.

English is the easiest language to learn? Try learning Greek.

So much easier than many languages

english is easy and simple

try spanish

The grammar's easy, but the spelling is atrocious

Cough, rough, dough, through.

It's actually fairly easy. The points you make against it are found far more excessively in many other languages.

English is like a bunch of languages mushed together and spread across the world with different variations so yeah it is going to be messy and confusing.

tbf any germanic language is easier than german. y'all have like 8 articles and 4 grammatical cases which is hard for a lot of ppl already

well, that is not so hard when it's your second language.

I speak 3 different languages because that's the type of bitch I am tratar con él💋

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Try french sis, the fact that I had to do some mental calculation before I pronounce '98'

This language spelling and pronunciation I can't LOVE it tho! beautiful

Trust me, you'd rather an easy language from a grammar point of view. Thank god Spanish is my mother language. Sometimes even native speakers find it hard to find the right form for a common verb in a particular tense

I am learning french and TBH I find it very very slightly easier than english just because the pronunciation and spelling rules are much more definite. only the grammar is more difficult.

and yes the whole numbers 70-99 situation is ridiculous in french

Tbh. As a native English speaker even I have trouble sometimes. It's no wonder there's so many native English speakers who can't do grammar to save their lives.

girl PLEASE show me a language where the past tense of a verb is a homograph of its present tense (like read).