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English is beautiful. I say that as an ESL who speaks Spanish and Italian fluently. English spelling, and etymology are fascinating and closely related. Englis
by dkxbdkf 6y ago
English is beautiful. I say that as an ESL who speaks Spanish and Italian fluently.
English spelling, and etymology are fascinating and closely related. English spelling often retains the original spelling despite changes in pronunciation.
Inflammable come directly from the Latin where “in” is not a negation but putting something “in” a state of being, in this case flame.
- lokedhs 6y agoBeauty is in the eye of the beholder. Thus I have no business telling you whether you are wrong or not in your assertion. However, both its grammar and spelling is incredibly ad-hoc. To someone who is a fan of structure (such as a programmer like myself), this is frustrating. I was going to make a comparison to a programming language, but I came to the conclusion that there isn't really a programming language out there that absorbs everything without making it natural in the adopted framework. Like you, I learned English as a second language and even though I can speak it reasonably well, I'm constantly annoyed by its idiosyncrasies.
- throw0101a 6y ago> … original spelling despite changes in pronunciation. An accident of history: the printing press and the first dictionaries started arriving and codifying spelling just before the shift occurred: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
- sjwright 6y agoEnglish is exceptionally beautiful. And I hate it.