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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also English: Random pronunciation without working rules.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Also include Gaelic languages like Irish and Scottish influencing English. I remember making a Portuguese colleague pronounce the words "bough", "lough" and "tough". It was funny and a realisation that the English language is just as non-sensical as any languages. Millennia of language mixing made any attempts to make sense of any language rules farcical but in amusing way.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

nooo Why did the Norman-French army of William, Duke of Normandy, have to Invade in 1066? It could have been so much simpler …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

A lot more Germanic, anyway. We'd have a lot more in common with our cousin tongues.