• Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    The French, whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense, we stole it from the French.

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      whenever you see an English word and none of the letters make sense

      that just about describes half the English vocabulary

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            Burrough turned into burrow and borough, both pronounced differently to brow, rough, trough, thought and through.

            I hate English.

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              10 months ago

              The funniest about this is that I once watched a video on interesting languages to learn and they were like “this language is super interesting because you spell everything the same as you pronounce it”… yeah like any normal language?

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                I understand languages get to change over time and once upon a time edinborough was actually pronounced close to it’s spelling, not the butchered edinbra of today. But why the fuck hasn’t the spelling catch up completely puzzles me, since no other language I’ve heard of has issues to the same degree.

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      10 months ago

      Honestly, the original question was a good one. That snarky reply in the original picture was pretty douchey. There’s a lot of interesting history behind linguistics.

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      10 months ago

      we stole it from the French

      The French invaded England and forced them to adopt their horrific clown language. FTFY.

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        10 months ago

        Actually the Normans, who were Vikings who rocked up in France and caused such a stink that the crown granted them lands in the north to shut them up. 1066 was basically a succession crisis between three cousins vying for the English crown.