Republic of Keshiland wrote:OMG yes. yes English is broken when written specifically but also just as a whole.
1. We have exceptions to every rule. What is the point of rules if they are not followed.
English isn't the only language to do this. For example, several words in the spanish language, despite ending in a vowel that would mean that they are one gender, but instead have the opposite gender descriptive noun(? El, Ella, etc) instead.
2. We are a combination of Anglish,[/quote]
Anglo-Saxon. Anglish is a conlang
French, Spanish, and Latin.
Plenty of other languages have plenty of loan words in their vocabulary. How is Eng;lish having the majority of it's vocabulary being loan words a bad thing?
We should not be like this. Just get rid of all the non germanic words that simple.
Uh, no. This is extremely stupid. They'res a reason said words are there, and they literally do no harm.
3. Silent letters. THEY MUST ALL DIE!
Again, English isn't the only language to have these.
4. Words that are spelt the same or that sound the same that means the opposite. >_> Seriously could you be more confusing.
Examples? Or do you mean homophone? Because those aren't the same as antonyms.
5. Tons of words have several meanings. Your, you're they're, there, their here, hear too, two, to, Bye, by, buy just to name a few.
And what's wrong with these? They can be annoying if you don't remember their contexts correctly, but they're not that bad.
6. Different spellings for American and commonwealth English.
What you get when there is no central authority for the language.
7. Letters with no sound. (C, X) C(S-K) X(KS). They need to go bye bye.
Do you know what such a change would require? We would have to completely revamp every written medium at great cost for little gain.
8. Lack of emotional words. English is not the language of banks for nothing.
The hell do you mean by this? Never read any English poetry? No Robert Frost? Have you read political pieces such as those by Thomas Paine?\And I'm pretty sure that plenty of banks use plenty of other languages as well.
How would I fix it?
Make English consist of only Germanic words.
Again, that would "fix" nothing. English's broken qualities have more to do with writing then it's actual vocabulary.