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Native english speaker here -- while I understand it's easy to come up with lists that show off the worst inconsistencies, I honestly think of those as the exce
by gcanyon 3y ago
Native english speaker here -- while I understand it's easy to come up with lists that show off the worst inconsistencies, I honestly think of those as the exception rather than the rule. Can you list out some of the most common, worst issues you see with english? I'm really curious.
- Izkata 3y agoIn case you haven't seen it before, check out the chaos poem: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
- boxed 3y agoSure, they're the exception, but the sheer volume of exceptions is staggering compared to Swedish (and Swedish is pretty bad imo!). Look at the simple sentence I wrote naturally above. There are so many violations of "sounding out" logic there! "Sure" should reasonably be spelled "shur", "they're" is a big topic in itself, c vs s spelling is all over the place, silent e at the end of words randomly, "compared" has a silent e IN the word because you have to know that it comes from "compare". And writing this explanation of the problems, I had to use even more words that are illogical, like: sentence, wrote, there (not counting words with c for s).