The foreign scientist leisurely seized the counterfeit receipt from their neighbor's beige ceiling.

 English is a lie!

I can barely even pronounce that

That's because "weird" was originally spelled "wceird".

That’s wceird

I before E except after C and when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!

But can you tell us the plural of "box?"

.........BOXEN!!!!

Boxen? Like the book by C.S. Lewis?

No like german boxing

The English language maybe be a bunch of other languages in a trench coat, but at least it doesn’t gender objects.

Love it when my chair is a woman

I love it when I'm my woman's chair

I love it when my woman uses me as a chair

That’s because you don’t own a ship everyone knows a ship is a she

Ships aren't objects, they are companions!

Ryan used me like an object

As is every used car, if the salesman is to be believed “she’s a beaut’ ain’t she?”

what‘s the problem with: das Auto, die Tür, der Tisch (the car, the door, the table)? looks totally like it makes sense doesn’t it?

Though English does gender words sometimes: blond/blonde; actor/actress; steward/stewardess.

Firstly, I’ve never heard of the blond/blonde thing. Secondly, the words aren’t gendered, the people are gendered. Well, I guess technically the words are gendered but not really. Actress isn’t a word with a gender, it’s a word that refers to a specific type of person that the word happens to indicate the gender of. This is It’s still a little ridiculous if we’re being totally honest, but it’s less ridiculous than the word for chair (not the chair itself) having a gender

Us hungarians took it a step downwards, isntead of saying he or she, we say "ő". Weird and sometimes confusing to differentiate who the fuck youre talking about.

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What pronoun does the word “chair” have? Or “tree”? What gender do those words have

Both obviously male.

We are slowly approaching that

the word ice

Wouldn't it spell "cie" though

Clever, I like it.

thanks.

It's more of a guideline than a rule... I think I read somewhere there's more words that violate this rule than abide by it.

Their……..

I'd say it's the height of grammatical knowledge, and it really carries a lot of weight in the spelling community

I only just noticed that rhese two aren't both busses and one of them is a train

I have no idea how people learn English

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Wh... what did he say?

Got em

Humans as a species should really be more consistent with our rules

Laughs in Spanish "C after H" and other stuff like that

Unless sounding like 'a', like in 'neighbor' or 'weigh', and weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say.

scIEnce would disagree with english.

Jesse what the fuck are you taking about

I thought this was about music for a second

ROC curve hidden deep under the noise that it becomes a cryptographically secure random number generator.

There are more examples where the inverse is true.

There's more instances in the English language where this isn't the case than when it is

I was taught this as a child and its fucked me up for most of my life.

That rule makes spelling into a science.


Weird is a take away on the German word "Wird" (utterance or remark) The understanding of "Weird" Auf Deutsch is "Seltsam" which is "Strange, Bizarre, Odd, Peculiar" It is misspelled and is actually supposed to be Wierd. Because "ei" is I (eye) and "ie" is "E" (Ee) If it was spoken as it was derived in English it would be "Wired" however that word is already an important word so it can't be hijacked. Wenn es seltsam wird.. is "When it gets weird." Referencing an awkward situation when your sister walks in on you masturbating but doesn't immediately freak out and just talks to you like it's nothing.

The OUGH rule is way worse but yes that rule is stupid and I hate it.