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[Cunth]

My kid is learning to read and they teach them to sound out the letters, which works with simple words like b-u-s or m-a-n. But then she starts trying to read other words and im constantly like 'oh that o sounds like a u here' or 'that a sounds like an e here' or 'that letter is silent.' 'Sorry kid, you just have to memorize the pronunciation of this word.' Fuck you william shakespeare.

 

[O-N-E]

Safe bet to blame the French.

 

[Tesseract]

accept the exceptions

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Does your kid know how to color in the lines or at least know most of the colours of the rainbow?

 

[Cunth]

Does your kid know how to color in the lines or at least know most of the colours of the rainbow?

u calling my kid a retard

 

[Nester99]

Not every thing that pops into your head makes an interesting thread. Don’t Dilute your brand bro

 

[Cunth]

Not every thing that pops into your head makes an interesting thread. Don’t Dilute your brand bro

u have a brand

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

u calling my kid a retard

Not exactly, but if you asked him to pass some grey paint, would he pass you gray?

 

[King of Foxes]

My kid is learning to read and they teach them to sound out the letters, which works with simple words like b-u-s or m-a-n. But then she starts trying to read other words and im constantly like 'oh that o sounds like a u here' or 'that a sounds like an e here' or 'that letter is silent.' 'Sorry kid, you just have to memorize the pronunciation of this word.' Fuck you william shakespeare.

Those of us with gendered languages laugh at your pathetic English woes. My Latvian language alphabet with its 33 letter mocks you.

 

[Airola]

That's Cunth's face being all funny and shit but also at the same time not quite getting DunDun's jokes and figuring out what's the joke or is there a joke at all.

 

[Cunth]

jokes should be funny tho

 

[triplestation]

colour

what are you french

 

[triplestation]

arse

 

[poppabk]

Those of us with gendered languages laugh at your pathetic English woes. My Latvian language alphabet with its 33 letter mocks you.

Cunth -"Trash cans are female"
Cunths kid - "fuck you dad"

 

[llien]

Fuck you william shakespeare.

Oh, you sweet summer child...
When spelling of a language makes sense:

1) It either didn't have any written form until recently
2) Rules have been changing over the course of history

E.g.:

German orthography reform of 1996 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Reforms of Russian orthography - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[haxan7]

Safe bet to blame the French.

It’s true. English got more complicated after 1066.

 

[Shrinky Dink]

I don't think people would tolerate a "reform" of English. Since it's just another way to force vaccines and give our kids autism...

 

[MasterCornholio]

Fuck you william shakespeare.

 

[HE1NZ]

Learn Russian.

 

[MetalAlien]

It's not bizarre. It's the divine language. The ancient language spoken throughout the universe before time was time.

 

[Cunth]

It's not bizarre. It's the divine language. The ancient language spoken throughout the universe before time was time.

American English is what every alien uses in movies

 

[MetalAlien]

American English is what every alien uses in movies

All the jews are gonna be pissed when they find out God only speaks American!

 

[lukilladog]

It's not bizarre. It's the divine language. The ancient language spoken throughout the universe before time was time.

Sure.

 

[DESTROYA]

Australian speak English? They talk like they are missing letters in the alphabet when you pronounce the letter R as ahh .

 

[MetalAlien]

Sure.

Goldilocks and the three bears...

 

[teezzy]

 

[Brian Fellows]

u calling my kid a retard

Don't be silly. He was clearly asking if your kid is retarded not calling him one.

 

[M1chl]

This is one of the thing which is weird in English. Like "lite" and "elite" how does it make any sense?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I was told that in Australia, everything is spelled backwards due to the Coriolis effect.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

My kid is learning to read and they teach them to sound out the letters, which works with simple words like b-u-s or m-a-n. But then she starts trying to read other words and im constantly like 'oh that o sounds like a u here' or 'that a sounds like an e here' or 'that letter is silent.' 'Sorry kid, you just have to memorize the pronunciation of this word.' Fuck you william shakespeare.

Should have let us germans conquer you, then you wouldn't have these problems.
Instead you would need to learn tons of shitty cases and "DER DIE DAS DEM DESSEN FUCKYOUILLKILLMYSELF".

 

[TTOOLL]

It's easy for kids, for adults tho...

 

[Cutty Flam]

Those of us with gendered languages laugh at your pathetic English woes. My Latvian language alphabet with its 33 letter mocks you.

Your Latvian country, as well as your lats, are weak son

The only masculine/feminine dominate language that matters is Spanish, so playa ass pimps who know can get it in with the latina booches

now, scamper along, fox..

 

[dionysus]

Because English has at least 4 root languages, one which is a romance language and the other three germanic.

 

[TheGreatYosh]

You mean fuck you Francis Bacon

This is one of the thing which is weird in English. Like "lite" and "elite" how does it make any sense?

It just does.

 

[NeoGiffer]

My kid is learning to read and they teach them to sound out the letters, which works with simple words like b-u-s or m-a-n. But then she starts trying to read other words and im constantly like 'oh that o sounds like a u here' or 'that a sounds like an e here' or 'that letter is silent.' 'Sorry kid, you just have to memorize the pronunciation of this word.' Fuck you william shakespeare.

 

[M1chl]

You mean fuck you Francis Bacon


It just does.

In other languages, if you spell something and spell it fast, it sounds exactly how is the word pronounced. That make sense, we even have character "ch", because c before h sounds different : )

 

[King of Foxes]

Your Latvian country, as well as your lats, are weak son

The only masculine/feminine dominate language that matters is Spanish, so playa ass pimps who know can get it in with the latina booches

now, scamper along, fox..

Unless you are full blood Spanish I got bad news for you friend

 

[Hulk_Smash]

My kid is learning to read and they teach them to sound out the letters, which works with simple words like b-u-s or m-a-n. But then she starts trying to read other words and im constantly like 'oh that o sounds like a u here' or 'that a sounds like an e here' or 'that letter is silent.' 'Sorry kid, you just have to memorize the pronunciation of this word.' Fuck you william shakespeare.

Etymology shows us why words change and become more difficult. Ancient Latin and Greek are much less difficult because they didn’t have so many cultural and historical influences pulling at them.

When I took Hebrew, my professor figured out that there at some point was a sort of “proto-Hebrew” where all the case endings and sounds were more consistent. Then he would take the “proto-Hebrew” word, add the etymological change to it- kind of like plugging in numbers to an algebra equation- and voila! that verb you were trying to conjugate.

It sounds complicated, but once you learned the formula, you can spell and pronounce any word correctly and you didn’t have to memorize a bunch of long lists.

 

[TheGreatYosh]

In other languages, if you spell something and spell it fast, it sounds exactly how is the word pronounced. That make sense, we even have character "ch", because c before h sounds different : )

Too simple for us.

 

[Nymphae]

Felt like a good thread for this

 

[Grinchy]

Why does it even matter? There are like 34 people left on the entire globe who even know the difference between your and you're. People say "could of" constantly.

You're worrying about teaching her English? Why? She'll be writing like a moron by the time she starts using Instasnapstagram or whatever is popular next year.

 

[Cutty Flam]

Unless you are full blood Spanish I got bad news for you friend

Fake news. Fox news, coming from you fam

 

[DragoonKain]

The worst part is you have one word meaning multiple things. And words that are pronounced the same but spelled differently. How the fuck a language would have their, there, they’re all pronounced exactly the same is fucking stupid. Just invent new words it’ll be so much easier.

 

[Wings 嫩翼翻せ]

Thanks for the story, mate.

 

[Tesseract]

hieroglyphs tho

 

[BlackOlivesMatter]

u calling my kid a retard

There's no evidence that your genes passed it on to your child

 

[Codes 208]

American English is what every alien uses in movies

Or japanese

 

[M1chl]

Felt like a good thread for this

Eubonics you are telling me that ruining English, so racist.... /s

 

[Mistake]

I before E, except after Cunth

Have your kid focus on vocabulary, like a ton. When they go to read, it will be easier, because it just clicks together. It helps with recognition

 

[HarryKS]

LARPing is not real life.