A little rant here on something that has always bothered me. I don't suppose many here know why English is so difficult to pronounce, do they?
Check out this short article: https://blog.esl-languages.com/blog/lear...irregular/
Where is says, "The Great Vowel Shift", it is rather well known that around this time, vowels were added in to confuse commoners and keep them illiterate, which was important for maintaining power.
Anyway, there should be consistency. The entire language needs a revamp where the letters say exactly how they are, meaning we'd a need a lot of new letters and simply vowels to a singular letter sound. One of the things that pisses me off the most is when I hear children learning spelling and the teachers are spewing what they're trained to teach about words and vowels in particular, and according to them words always should sound phonetically how they're spelt, except vowels that might change them to say their name, and then this:
Words / Sound Like
on = aw
of = uh
oh = o
to = ew
No consistency. Does not follow any logical format for vowels or grammar. Basically, English as we know it is nothing more than an act of memorization, with just enough logical fallacy thrown in to seem like logical syntax to confuse us, lol. I'd like to see someone revamp the entire language. There are writers, such as JR Tolken who have written entire languages. Linguists who have deciphered the languages of lost cultures. Why not tap one of them (living ones of course) to do this? I guess it's not a priority on many peoples plates, but I think it'd make learning this language so much easier for everyone!
Check out this short article: https://blog.esl-languages.com/blog/lear...irregular/
Where is says, "The Great Vowel Shift", it is rather well known that around this time, vowels were added in to confuse commoners and keep them illiterate, which was important for maintaining power.
Anyway, there should be consistency. The entire language needs a revamp where the letters say exactly how they are, meaning we'd a need a lot of new letters and simply vowels to a singular letter sound. One of the things that pisses me off the most is when I hear children learning spelling and the teachers are spewing what they're trained to teach about words and vowels in particular, and according to them words always should sound phonetically how they're spelt, except vowels that might change them to say their name, and then this:
Words / Sound Like
on = aw
of = uh
oh = o
to = ew
No consistency. Does not follow any logical format for vowels or grammar. Basically, English as we know it is nothing more than an act of memorization, with just enough logical fallacy thrown in to seem like logical syntax to confuse us, lol. I'd like to see someone revamp the entire language. There are writers, such as JR Tolken who have written entire languages. Linguists who have deciphered the languages of lost cultures. Why not tap one of them (living ones of course) to do this? I guess it's not a priority on many peoples plates, but I think it'd make learning this language so much easier for everyone!
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