Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)
by gone35 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @12:50PM
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I'd argue the "phonetically broken" nature of English has more to do with his learning it as a second language than anything intrinsically wrong with English.
Nope, there is something intrinsically 'wrong' with modern English: the lack of a central language authority plus the Great Vowel Shift[1] caused the massive spelling inconsistencies of today.
Nope, there is something intrinsically 'wrong' with modern English: the lack of a central language authority plus the Great Vowel Shift[1] caused the massive spelling inconsistencies of today.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift