If you think American English is bad, you should see British English.
And before any Brits get their pabties in a twist: no, all the unnecessary additions of “u” aren’t original. You all did that after the American Revolution. You collectively had such a temper tantrum over losing a colony that you butchered your own language. Congratulations.
By that logic, if your English language essay gets an F it’s the English language’s fault?
Given we’re talking about the English language, yes /jk
Hey! Native speaker here. If we:
reformed the spelling
stopped the locals from coming out with any deranged shite that they liked the sound of and made them follow some rules instead
…then it would be a perfectly usable language, thank you.
“Reform the spelling” how would you go about that?
“Refom de speling” hou wud ju go abaut dat?
(Croatian way - write what you hear)
Starting to look like dutch
How about the Finnish version:
“Reform te spelling” hau vuud juu gou abaut tät?
If you think American English is bad, you should see British English.
And before any Brits get their pabties in a twist: no, all the unnecessary additions of “u” aren’t original. You all did that after the American Revolution. You collectively had such a temper tantrum over losing a colony that you butchered your own language. Congratulations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996