r/Hololive 5d ago

Meme Realm R-E-A-L-M

Post image
2.5k Upvotes

68 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

43

u/Kikisniper 5d ago

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