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What are the most annoying things about English? (lemmy.xylight.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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here's some I've noticed:

Why do we have articles? They're mostly useless.
Why do capital letters exist? (this is mainly an issue with the Greek and Latin alphabet though)
Why is "I" used plural for verbs?
Why are there so many inconsistent prefixes for tenses?
's is used for possessives. However, "its" is the possessive and "it's" is not.
Why do we have another set of pronouns for possessive pronouns?
Why do adjectives go before the noun compared to basically every other language?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Capital letters let you read faster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I acknowledge english has many confusing and contrary facets, but I must counter with why do other languages assign gender to things and make others neutral? A car could be female, the muffler neutral, and the window glass male.

Also, I don’t have much to offer regarding adjectives other than it doesn’t matter. The human brain is capable of sorting both “the car blue” and “the blue car” just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The word "colonel."

Where is the god damn R sound coming from?!