I have gained some fluency in three foreign languages and I can now say I'm not surprised by the long tail anymore. Gendered nouns or inconsistent prepositions

I have gained some fluency in three foreign languages and I can now say I'm not surprised by the long tail anymore. Gendered nouns or inconsistent prepositions are only the start of it. If you get angry at arcane pronounciation rules, what are you going to make of the huge body of phrases found in every language? Learning any language well takes a lot of effort. And initial tribulations like pronounciation don't affect the overall effort much. The international version of English is shaping up even without a governing body. And I do expect children in traditionally English-speaking countries having to take classes in it to make themselves understood. It would be nice if some warts could be removed in the process. But no authority with enough pull exists. We'd need a WEO setting standards and nobody wants that badly enough.