I love it when English speakers try to make fun of German or French, languages that have a very strict rules and easy to memorize exeptions. While they speak one of the most random languages there is:
Pronounced the same written differently:
Fore vs for vs four
Buy vs by vs bye
Etc.
Written the same but pronounced differently:
Tear and tear
Lead and lead
Etc.
And you can’t even just memorize a rule:
Eight = ate so you would expect height = hate but it doesn’t…
I love it when English speakers try to make fun of German or French, languages that have a very strict rules and easy to memorize exeptions. While they speak one of the most random languages there is:
Pronounced the same written differently:
Written the same but pronounced differently:
And you can’t even just memorize a rule: Eight = ate so you would expect height = hate but it doesn’t…
Especially when you keep in mind how the English language came into being, as a weird offspring of germanic and norman French.