Ah, the English language. It's just horrible, isn't it? Yes, that's right reader, it's Sordhau back again with another thread to discuss the intricacies of how utterly redundant and idiotic the English language is and how it frankly should be fixed. This time we're paying extra special attention to three little letters in close relation to one another: S, C, and K.
We all know the sounds they make. S makes the S sound, K makes the K sound, but C... C makes both. Now if there was ever anything in the English language that didn't make a lick of sense, it'd be that. Why the ever-loving fuck do we have a letter that exists purely to replicate the sound of two other letters? Why not just use those letters? Because English is stupid. It is a stupid, horrible language. Once again I will blame the Normans. Is it their fault? Probably not, but I need somebody to blame and the Normans are all dead anyway so fuck 'em. They get to be the scapegoats. Screw you, Billy the Bastard. Go back to Rouen ya French viking.
Perhaps the dumbest part of this whole ordeal, though, is that S shouldn't even be mixed up in this nonsense in the first place. Why? Because as Romaboos, Latin speakers, and anyone whose played Fallout: New Vegas will tell you: the letter 'C' in the original Latin makes the 'K' sound. Yes, that's right, billions of people have been pronouncing "Caesar", "century", etc. wrong this whole time. Romulus weeps as he spins in his grave. The Greek "Herakles" thus becomes the Latin "Hercules", and so on and so forth. To make things worse the letter 'K' is actually an import into English that did not come with the original introduction of the Latin alphabet. The Anglo-Saxons, already using 'C' to represent the 'K' sound, were wise enough to look down upon the letter K and it's redundancy - mocking the Greeks and their inferior symbols (Greek alphabet is actually way cooler tbh) and rejecting the heretical implications of the letter K. But at some point in time this changed; don't ask me when, or why, or how because all I'm gonna do is blame the Normans again. Yes, it's probably not their fault--the French, after all, don't use the letter 'K' either--but I need *someone* to blame damn it! And the Normans suck anyway, nobody likes them. Bunch of Value Brand viking LARPers smdh.
All this just begs the question(s) of why C can make an 'S' sound and why K was brought into English when the 'K' sound was already represented by the letter C. Truthfully, though, I don't particularly care for the answers to those questions. It doesn't matter how the arrow was lodged into your knee, ending your adventuring career for good in the process. What matters is that if you intend to pursue your secondary dream of being a city guardsman you must have it surgically removed! And so it is with this confounding conundrum that is the English language that the cancerous tumors riddling it's lexicon, orthography, alphabet, and other big words I forgot the meaning of and am too lazy to look up in the dictionary must be surgically removed! The question therefor is how to best go about it? Removing C seems to be the most straight-forward process. However, the letter C is also much more aesthetically pleasing than K so maybe we should ditch K and drop the 'S' sound for C instead? What say ye, NSG? How shall we fix the disgusting English language before it ushers in the ruin of human civilization as we know it?
