English makes so much sense.
We didn’t do most of the fuckery in English. It was the Normans, while they were in charge, who forced scribes to use screwed-up French spelling for words.
It’s always the god-damned French.
(jk, love you France! 🩷)
It does? How do you figure?
That would just be a miss-spelling of chivalry.
Written English is descriptive - it’s describes an existing sound.
“Chivalry” is a loan word from French, which is why it’s pronounced with the “S” sound, as French itself is influenced by the S/K sound division from centuries(?) earlier.
Your complaint about consistency is because English is the most syncretic language - it arguably has more loanwords than most other languages have words.
English is like three languages stacked on top of one another while wearing a trenchcoat, pretending to be a single language.
And also randomly welding on other languages for fun
English makes perfect sense—it’s all the other languages we keep stealing words from who can’t agree on a common spelling system.
As a Norwegian, I am fully aware that my ancestors helped created the English language by first invading the welsh isles, and then, three generations after invading the Francs, we invaded the isles again with romance speaking nobility for generations.
English is a Nordic made Francish/Welsh/Germanic creole that was made popular by the still Norwegian blooded crown.
But only sometimes, of course
Of course, wouldn’t want consistency or anything trivial like that.
You act like language is planned (other than Esperanto).
No language is consistent.
You forgot Korean.
Why would you add an “s” to the word “chivalry” though?
Chivalry, schmivalry.
so we could say “schivalry” der ;)
Schivalry? 🤨
At least we only have one “the”
Schlep
Who tf pronounces skism like that?! Sch is longer and a bit softer than a sk sound. I guess we’re back around to Febuary again .
How do you pronounce “schedule”?
Skedual
I used to pronounce it “sk”, but in my new job, working with schedules with a Londoner, it is now “sh” for me. Undoing the US-ification of my English one word at a time.
Cómo odio el putísimo Ingles
It’d be more emphatic if you wrote that in another language. For that type of expression the French are usually fairly adept. “Anglaise? Je deteste la pute stupide!”
Disclaimer: I don’t speak French, so probably don’t actually say that to a real French speaker.
OK, I change it to my mother language.
