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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to memorize 50,000 words and you're good.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

that's what English would look like if we fixed the fucking spelling. They look at French's oodles of rules that all matter

Can't we just use the Finnish rule of "each letter is only pronounced one way ever" and solve all the headaches?