here’s some I’ve noticed:

  1. Why do we have articles? They’re mostly useless.
  2. Why do capital letters exist? (this is mainly an issue with the Greek and Latin alphabet though)
  3. Why is “I” used plural for verbs?
  4. Why are there so many inconsistent prefixes for tenses?
  5. 's is used for possessives. However, “its” is the possessive and “it’s” is not.
  6. Why do we have another set of pronouns for possessive pronouns?
  7. Why do adjectives go before the noun compared to basically every other language?
  • XTL
    5·
    1 year ago

    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love

    In the first place, very little thinking was ever done in English; it is not a language suited to logical thought. Instead, it’s an emotive lingo beautifully adapted to concealing fallacies. A rationalizing language, not a rational one.

    • freamon@feddit.nl
      4·
      1 year ago

      That book seems stacked for quotes.

      “Son, I hate to say this — because, if you’ve been reading a lot of English, I see how you reached that opinion — but you are one hundred percent wrong.”