Idiosyncratic is quite a friendly way to describe it. Written English is jus plain awful and makes no sense whatsoever. It is basically impossible to read engl

Idiosyncratic is quite a friendly way to describe it. Written English is jus plain awful and makes no sense whatsoever. It is basically impossible to read english without knowing the words and thus how to pronounce them. You can read whole german sentences without understanding a word but still pronounce them correctly. This is something you will often find in children reading a book; where the pronunciation is basically correct and then they ask what a certain word means at the end. English speakers just stutter step across unknown words and are often unable to finish the sentence when they encounter something unknown. This sort stuttering is really jarring and happens a lot even to adults. Being german but reading a lot of technical stuff in english, the nonsensical nature of written English is just mind boggling.