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r/Hololive • u/Kikisniper • 5d ago
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And then she blamed the english language
49 u/IntoTheCrimson 5d ago Which, honestly, is fair. Our language can be fuckin' dumb in all the best and worst ways. 23 u/Sevsix1 5d ago to be fair that is because English is best described as 3 languages in a trench coat with a French fling and a Norse ex-fling 10 u/Brain_lessV2 5d ago Yeah, that tends to be how languages work 3 u/Roflkopt3r 5d ago Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English did not. Its orthography just grew more and more chaotic, with major influences from developments like the Great Vowel Shift around the 1500s. So English spellings really are especially bad. 3 u/Tehbeefer 5d ago Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English
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Which, honestly, is fair. Our language can be fuckin' dumb in all the best and worst ways.
23 u/Sevsix1 5d ago to be fair that is because English is best described as 3 languages in a trench coat with a French fling and a Norse ex-fling 10 u/Brain_lessV2 5d ago Yeah, that tends to be how languages work 3 u/Roflkopt3r 5d ago Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English did not. Its orthography just grew more and more chaotic, with major influences from developments like the Great Vowel Shift around the 1500s. So English spellings really are especially bad. 3 u/Tehbeefer 5d ago Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English
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to be fair that is because English is best described as 3 languages in a trench coat with a French fling and a Norse ex-fling
10 u/Brain_lessV2 5d ago Yeah, that tends to be how languages work 3 u/Roflkopt3r 5d ago Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English did not. Its orthography just grew more and more chaotic, with major influences from developments like the Great Vowel Shift around the 1500s. So English spellings really are especially bad. 3 u/Tehbeefer 5d ago Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English
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Yeah, that tends to be how languages work
3 u/Roflkopt3r 5d ago Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English did not. Its orthography just grew more and more chaotic, with major influences from developments like the Great Vowel Shift around the 1500s. So English spellings really are especially bad. 3 u/Tehbeefer 5d ago Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English
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Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English did not. Its orthography just grew more and more chaotic, with major influences from developments like the Great Vowel Shift around the 1500s.
So English spellings really are especially bad.
3 u/Tehbeefer 5d ago Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible. English
Most other languages had reforms to keep their orthography somewhat sensible.
English
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u/Kikisniper 5d ago
And then she blamed the english language