He's not arguing about language though, but writing systems specifically. If someone would say the English writing system sucks, and gave specific reasons why,

He's not arguing about language though, but writing systems specifically. If someone would say the English writing system sucks, and gave specific reasons why, I would probably agree with them. Spellings are absurd, we have unnecessary letters, case makes no sense, etc. But I can't get being offended even if criticizing the language itself. English certainly has a lot of strange and arbitrary rules. What is with "be", "are", "am" for example? Why should languages be above criticism?