Is the English language not one of the worst, most inconsistent languages you have ever heard or spoken before? It’s got some of the dumbest characters and sounds I’ve ever heard before.
Our alphabet definitely needs work. Take the ‘F’ sound for example. It can be created by the letter ‘F’ and the letters ‘Ph’. Talk about inconsistency. Seriously, why not just call it Telefone, instead of telephone? And to confuse English speaking Newbies even more, we have letters that make more than one sound. Take the letter ‘C’ for example, is this letter really necessary? I mean we already have the letters ‘S’ and ‘K’, so what’s the point behind ‘C’s’ existence?
And how about those different accents and dialects? How many of those do we have in *just* the United States alone? I’ll bet that there must be hundreds. While it may be true that some people use them for cultural reasons, isn’t it at all possible to restructure everyone’s accents or dialects and just cut out the fluff?
One more thing I can’t stand is just how many words we have for the same things. We don’t really need to be calling it the water fountain, drinking fountain, AND the bubbler. Synonyms are one of the biggest screw-ups of the English Language, IMO. I can see now why taking a few courses to learn English must be one of the hardest tasks for non-Native speakers.
Some of you may say, but our historical and geographical distributions cause everyone to speak and correspond with each other differently. Then I’ll remind everyone that we live in the information age, and with tools like wireless communications and the internet, I don’t see how it could be very hard to do something about it.
The English language speakers still don’t seem smart enough to create a well-known, easy to learn phonologic communication system. Some major English revisions are overdue in my opinion, as consistency is the key to a great language.
I agree. The language is boring and dumb. It does not sound romantic like the latin based languages, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian etc. There is no formal way to say you nor masculine and feminine nouns.
I wish I was born in Germany so I didn’t have to fill my head up with all this English garbage but it’s too late now, I know too much to get rid of it
Take the sentence
“I didn’t say I beat my wife.” Six unique words, seven different meanings depending on the accented word.
[I] didn’t say .. / someone else said it
I [didn't] say ../ in response to an accusation
I didn’t [say] I ../ Inferring another form of communication
didn’t say [I] beat ../ Someone else did it
say I [beat] my ../ You did something else
I beat [my] wife ../ You beat someone elses wife
beat my [wife] ../ You beat someone/something else
English sucks
I totally agree! I used to love English, but since I’m a fanatic of linguistics, I’ve realized that it is not so cool… I still like it, but I think it should have an organism that would study and take care of it, just like Real Academia Española for Spanish language…
Regards.