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[โ€“] geissi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm saying that there are no consistent rules so language learners have to learn each word individually.
If you learn languages by memorizing every singe vowel shift since proto-indo-european then be my guest but for someone who just wants to speak the language and has to learn the difference between plough, through, though etc, it seems pretty damn arbitrary.

You have repeatedly demonstrated that you do not understand the meaning of the word arbitrary.