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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (31 children)

There's nothing worse in terms of pronunciation than English. French is silly for writing twice as much as what's pronounced, but at least it mostly follows some rules.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Doesn't english just get that from being three languages in a trench coat?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What’s so wild is that, as a native speaker, there are SO many rules and edge cases and exceptions…. And I know them by heart without ever being told them explicitly. First example that comes to mind is the whole order of adjectives…. We say big fluffy purple cat, never purple fluffy big cat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

There's small cat medium cat and big cat. Any cat clothes shop will tell you the same.

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