English can certainly be difficult! It can understood through tough thorough thought though throughout the learning process.
If y’all ain’t get the gist of it y’ain’t thunk it thru enuff.
This was the easiest sentence to parse out for me…
No. It’s shit
He said in English.
Do you speak other languages tho?
Yeah lol
past tense read and toxic lead vs reading and leading if somebody doesn’t underntand
Careful, though: reading (past tense of ‘to read’) doesn’t rhyme with Reading (place name)
I feel like I walked on a rake after a perfect catwalk reading you. Love it.
Como enemigo número uno del Inglés, this post feels validating to me.
Time de inimigos do inglês
Qu’est-ce que c’est ?
That’s the ubiquitous “what’s that” in French. All languages are evil to newcomers.
You’re welcome.
It is in the end parts of old englsih, French, Latin, Dutch, German and Norse duct-taped together and forced into a trenchcoat.
PONY AND FUCKING BOLOGNA!!
It is weird how this kind of writing won out in Europe when it literally had exposure from all sides to far better more sensible scripts.
My daughter is filled with laughter
And you can’t spell manslaughter without laughter
Wait… how do you pronounce vaseline?
Va-seh-leen
/ˈvæ.sə.lin/
like the vase with a linen.
You pronounce it like: “petroleum jelly rots the latex within 30 seconds”.
I pronounce vaseline vase-line just to be consistent with baseline.
This entire thread is /c/badlinguistics.
I hate this language so much.
England has been invaded and conquered 4 times (?). The language is a mess of leftover words and crammer.
Celts Romans Angle Saxons (Jutes) Vikings Normans
https://martinpollins.com/2024/04/03/the-waves-of-invaders-who-shaped-britain/
It’s mostly the orthography being horrifically out of date and not being designed well
Bāslyn Vaselín
…it’s because of all the colonising and stealing of words.
Why didn’t they steal something to replace read and lead?
