This summarizes my frustration with the English language.

The people who made the English language just wanted to mess with our heads and defy all logic to keep themselves entertained.

Think of it as the old fashion twisted suduko puzzle that could change rules any second... Or... something.

 

How do you sound e's in different languages?

 

This obviously shows how little you know about the English language.

 

I agree it's bullshit.



You know what? Im gonna start saying the "e" sound like "ee" for all the words.

 

That's what you get when you're language is basically a large stir fry of many languages. You should all be speaking something simple to pronounce, like Finnish! Apart from maybe three words, everything is phonetic!

 

It's a bit odd that english has that many words that the sounds and letters don't match up. Eat and message don't bother me as much as "enough" why does enough spells this way but we use a F sound, or a Ph (and why use Ph, when F does the same thing?). In other languages they at least bothered to put some signs so you know how to speak alas é, ê/á,ã,â in portuguese every single one of this, has different sounds, but we do sign that so you can speak correctly the first time you see the word.

But trust me english is way more simple to use than portuguese/french and all the other languages that over complicate their rules... impler to know new words, and know why the things are the way they are. But language is not science so every once in a while you'll bump into something strange, and will have to acknowledge that it is what it is, because someone liked or said so, not because it makes sense

 

English has a lot of weird sounds because a lot of words in the language are derived from other languages. It's a melting pot when it comes to linguistics, I guess. The "ph" sound comes from Greek while the "gh" comes from Anglo-Saxon if I remember correctly. In both of those languages, those two phonemes sound like an "f". It's strange to us but makes sense in those languages. We can't expect other languages to follow the same pronunciation rules as our own. As for the opening posts, somebody needs to learn about diphthongs. "Ea" and "e" make different sounds. There's also such a thing as long and short vowel. Pay attention in class, kids.

I agree. I also know Portuguese but English is much simpler in terms of rules. English doesn't have to worry about gender most of the time. Verb conjugations are much easier. Diacritics don't exist. It's much simpler to write and speak in my opinion.

 

You think that's bad? Well, I've got a question for you: How do you pronounce "Ghoti"? Like "Fish". The gh is from tough, the o from women and the ti from nation. I always thought ghoti was the best example on how weird the english language is.

 

Dat meesage.

 

bored

board

 

That is so cool! My new favourite word <3


Also, lol "eat message" xD

 

Scrow th Engls langwedge

 

i love that dude hes so angry
but i agree

 

You think English is bad?

Try Welsh... Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.

It's a real place name.

Now try to guess these words:

Llygaid (hard "chk" sound like you're trying to spit, guy- hard d)

Coch (Like "Cork)

Oh and the alphabet goes: A B C Ch D Dd E F Ff G Ng H I J L Ll M N O P Ph R Rh S T Th U W Y.

I can't speak Welsh, I'mma stick to English.

 

Think this is hard, try al bhed, **** is crazy, Oui means you, but it's pronounced "we" MADNESS.