Why it be like that?
>>214609883English:ColonelDebtIslandKnightWednesday I could continue with the list of bullshit in english but I won't as its obvious to anyone. It's not a logical language.
>>214609954English spelling was solidified hundreds of years ago, when the words were pronounced much closer to how they were spelled. Our spelling also reflects etymological origin and not just pronunciation.
>random bullshit filtered
>>214610104too bad english spearkers, especially americans know nothing about etymology of words they're using
>>214609954>debt? You picked the only english word that is pronounced as it is written lmao
>>214609954Island is a particularly funny case because the silent s was just randomly inserted into it.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/island>From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English īeġland>The insertion of ⟨s⟩—a 16th century spelling modification—is due to a change in spelling to the unrelated term isle, which previously lacked s (cf. Middle English ile, yle). The re-addition was mistakenly carried over to include iland as well.
>>214610449the b is silent
>>214610605Saarhttps://youtu.be/1pWsdmmX3q4?si=ooltdIBI9bVSoRpJ
>>214610577For you, denbts
>>214610628literally proves me right
>>214609883For the Chinese, it was comfortable, as it allowed to unify millions upon millions of people. One Hieroglyph would be read by both a Northerner, Cantonese and Someone from Guandong with the same meaning, provided that they knew how to read at all. This form of writing was far more comfortable to have compared to alphabetical, as the languages and dialects would inevitably diverge and communicating with different parts of the country would be made harder and at the end, it would cause the collapse of the unity they had.As for the Japanese, I have no Idea. I guess they worshiped Chinese o algo.
>>214609883It's because Chinese people are elitist and they wanted to prevent commoners from reading, so that only autistic studycels could climb the ranks and achieve high positions in government. Making the language hard to learn not only accomplished that, but also more easily excluded foreigners from participating in civic Chinese life. And it actually still functions in that way.
>>214610741didn't Mao try to make it easier with the simplified chinese shit
>>214610741How come korea and vietnam understood the tardness of the hieroglyphs?
>>214610843They got filtered so made their own lame ways to gain literacy
>>214610671Deb-t
>>214610628>>214610449
>>214611248Im sorry saar 2 but I speak american not english
>>214610628He's right, people even used to spell it as det/dett before it was standarised as debt
