The primary role of a language is as a medium to transmit information from one location to another. English has developed from origins with traditional diversit

The primary role of a language is as a medium to transmit information from one location to another. English has developed from origins with traditional diversity of culture (anywhere British Empire), and, as a result, most of the words and phrases have an awesome Hamming distance. Basically, two things. 1. English words are extremely robust to shitty pronunciation. 2. Communication in modern American-English is extremely robust to shitty grammar.