CAN WE GET RID OF THIS FUCKASS F TO V RULE IT MAKES NO SENSE LIKE WHY IS LIVES SPELT THE WAY IT IS IT SHOULD BE LIFES AND ITS NOT EVEN CONSISTENT LIKE ROOFS ISNT ROOVES WE NEED THIS RULE GONE AND WE NEED LIVES TO BE SPELT LIFES
language is an imperfect thing and trying to make it consistent makes it even more imperfect. get over your retarded obsessions.
>>24765580there is a lot that needs "reforming" in the english language. I get the US could never do it, but why Britain has never said to form a body to guide the wirtten language the way the Germans or even French do it, is beyond me.
>>24765580The plural of "chef" is "chefs." There is basically no such thing as an "English grammar rule."
>>24765580But isn't all this nonsense a little delightful?
>>24765608Chef is a loanword from French. The examples in OP are all Saxon words.
>>24765620The plural of "roof" is "roofs" and "roof" is of old english origin.
>the chinese language survived the mongol invasion but the english couldn't survive the normal invasionkek
>>24765629How does that contradict anything I said?
>anyone>no onemakes no sense
>>24765635>he doesn't spell it noöne
Same as how u pronounce the o in hope cause the e is silent but not some done come or other things
>>24765580shut the fuck up eslshoo shoo stinky foreigner or else i'll spray you with air freshener
>>24765963My first language is english but it still has alot of flaws and makes no sense alot of the time
>>24765580Literally just stop speaking proper english. Ignore grammar rules you don't like. Be the change you want to see. Just look at rap music
