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Just about everyone must have wondered at some time.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/62995/why...g-so-weird
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Bit random but still about English.
I remember 'arguing' with my English teacher on the difference of Shuttle with Rocket. I kept telling him that shuttle and rocket are basically the same thing. We argued for several minutes during English class. Other students just stared at us arguing.
I was in standard 4 (10 years old) at the time.
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I find it easier and more compact than my own native language.
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Insertnamehere Wrote:Weird?
I find it easier and more compact than my own native language.
Spanish (if that is your native language) spelling has rules and is comparatively easy, it's the grammar that is the bugbear.
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without money"
Maggie the Cat from "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." by Tennessee Williams
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omg, that post by [MENTION=23123]Alto[/MENTION] ...
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Sometimes I thought that I saw a beard with a bird.
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Why do wallets never sound like sachets, and how long will the people of Calais learn to do ballet?
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That was really interesting, and i liked the animation that goes with it too. Language is crazy fascinating, you can trace human history through how we speak.
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If I had to say why it's so difficult, it's because there's so much borrowing from other languages. It's certainly true that English has a lot of Latin and Greek roots, but it's a Germanic language that has many words borrowed from French, and some borrowed from Spanish as well. English in general is a pretty hard language.
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