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English is actually useful, because it connects you to a huge culture. Many complain about the spelling, since it's not phonetic, but few recognize the value of
by microcolonel 7y ago
English is actually useful, because it connects you to a huge culture. Many complain about the spelling, since it's not phonetic, but few recognize the value of that.
Latin in English is recognizable as Latin, Portuguese as Portuguese, etc. A Scot and a Midwesterner may pronounce the same words differently, understand eachother without much difficulty, and spell things the same.
Saw this convincing and entertaining video on the topic the other day:
https://youtu.be/GiVs05yq9-o https://youtu.be/GiVs05yq9-o
- reirob 7y agoThanks for that! It is very entertaining and puts me in peace with English, which so far I was refusing to give a status of a proper language and was degrading to a tool of communication - actually a great tool and I am happy we have it. But this video finally gives some answers about why the spelling is so weird and why reforming it would destroy so much meaning and etymological history in the writing. Funny how languages evolve. From now on I will stop complaining about the spelling in English and French :-D