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
Harken, verily I speak truly onto thee, our English tongue hath been corrupted for many years now. Lo' what t'was once amongst the most fair languages of the world has become merely fit for degenerate doggerl. Forsooth, tis better that we retvrn to the ways of our forefathers and turn from "speaking" that we might once again "speaketh." Verily, thou must petition thy state that the schools be redirected that Zoomer speak vanisheth from the world and fair Middle English be restored (though methinks with more standardized spelling) that we might once again "speak onto each other" rather than "speak to one another." T'is time my goodmen, reclaim thy heritage!
I'm ESL and I find that oddly aesthetic. There are other inconsistencies in English which are also ugly as fuck but this is not one of them.
English is such an accessible and idiot-proof language that ESLs have to keep going out of their way to find things to complain about. You can put an “s” on the end of any of those words while speaking and it sounds 90% the same, likewise if you do so in writing it will be wrong but everyone will know what is meant.>wolfs? hmmm gee I wonder what that is?Said no one ever.Now I understand why the French are such gatekeepers of their language, they’re tired of people fucking it up and complaining about it the whole time while doing so.
>>24766441French cannot be fucked up any further, at least phonetically.
please stop treating my language like its an animal at the zoo, if you dont get it its fine but it just works
>>24766441>Now I understand why the French are such gatekeepers of their languagewe need to copy them however there is an massive continent to the west which has already butchered our language
>>24765580The only rule I care about changing is cementing the plural of moose as meese in the English language.
>>24766466Sometimes I wonder if they did it as a joke
