English Makes No Sense: Here vs. There

Yeah, just don't. Lmao

Isn't it like that for most languages?

@@soch144 not really, some have more logical rules than others

From what I've got from English If it sounds nice it's probably how you say it

I can see your comment going up and up

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Simple

so that's the reason why they invade my country

It may have come from French Latin but bastardized...

Yup, so simple that English speaking countries have spelling bee contests because even the natives don't get it. These contests aren't a thing in other languages. 😁

Yes. The English pronounciation.

It doesn't really depend. There are some rules, but mostly it's just memorization. I don't think English-speakers care as much as other language-speakers do about pronunciation, though.

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god that's so true

Right on the money!

Same in different languages

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Or dear and deer. Or bear and beer. Anyway, I simply refuse to pronounce "they're" as "there". I just say "they-r"/"thayr" (and sound like a NATO secretary general, but it could be worse!).

Homophones and homographs and homonyms....oh my! Homophones and homographs and homonyms, OH MY!

@@EliasHasle My freshman English teacher always pronounced it "they are", completely defeating the purpose of the contraction lol

@@PJM257 What's the purpose of that contraction, though... People just mix it up with "their" in writing. (Like "you're" and "your" too.)

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It's the same with spelling. As a native English speaker, I only recently learned that other languages don't have spelling bees (contests to spell words in our language correctly). We have them because English is a trash language that just stole words and word-parts from a bunch of other languages, threw them into a bag, shook them around, and said, "I guess these are ours now. Good luck, everyone!"

English is the Language that leads others into back alleys and pats their pockets for spare nouns and verbs.

@@uhohspaghettios2391 to be fair, a lot of other languages did the same thing

This. I'm a native speaker and I get so PO'd when people chastise other people for getting the language wrong and assume they're stupid when it's a bunch of random/arbitrary rules to it anyway.

And in an odd way as messed up as english is it's still one of the easiest languages out there. As a native arab, arabic actually has alot of rules and isnt as random as english but is significantly harder

The Key to learn english is simply to learn english

​@@gaspardgoor3068As a native English speaker. The key to learning English is to understand the context and emphasis/annunciation.

but you have to know how it sounds first tho

literally

Exaaactly!! Tests your memory. Logic is NOT involved here.

this is the perfect answer XD

Actually other way around...look up "the great vow shift"...in short, we have the french (at least in part) to the blame for spelling and prononciation not lining up...

​@@clementverkimpe940Maybe a better answer : "To get revenge, French"

Classic

​@@dwavenminer agreed

Why? Now is that a country next to 'WHAT?' I ain't ever heard of it - Jules from *PULP Fic*

He did say "Quoi?" 2 seconds before it.

This comment is absolutly underrated.

Omg AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Ohhhh I love this

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English doesn't have rules, just guidelines, and half the words don't cooperate

​@@cartermeeks2383 That's because english is essentially a mix of languages but mainly uses germanic words

They are more like guidelines then actual rules.

@@cannotfigureoutaname that’s what makes learning german easy. -also germans weird spellings but we’re not getting into that-

@@gr1nm Ich bin kein Deutscher lol

English is hard for pronunciation due to being so inconsistent, but French has this attribute on top of very complex grammar while English grammar is very simple. So French is still much harder than English.

Pronunciation is basically the only thing that makes English more difficult. When it comes to grammar, other languages have it beat by miles

@Fiamo Scarlette I didn't say that French is the hardest language or something but a majority of people like croissants and the Eiffel Tower, etc. but when it's to use a single word in French for them it's a masquerade

The hardest is still hungarian ... An horror.

As non native English speaker, I can confirm English is the easiest language in the world to learn. French is probably the hardest of the romance languages with Spanish being probably the easiest.

english is just a fricking mess. french has some pronunciation rules at least.

@@ndjxisjenxjix9525 😂😂😂

​@@ndjxisjenxjix9525 But some sounds change with the different regions.

@@micah4973 but stays consistent within that region. I dont know of any country that has pronunciation shows because they cant be sure how to pronounce a word when u see it

Most of the bull in English originates in French

EXACTLY!!

No, I've studied French. English spelling is a mess both ways: you see letters and you never guess how to read them; you hear words and you never guess how to spell them. French spelling is only hard when you want to spell what you hear. But the other way round, when you want to pronounce what you see, it's very easy. 99% you'll get it right. E.g. French _ou_ is always like _oo_ in _cook_ (or maybe _oo_ in _soon)._ No exceptions! But the English _ou_ is different in _count, country, mould, couch, couchette!_ Four different ways you've got to remember!

But, but French has rules for reading. And very few exceptions.

​@@ilghiz it's still hard. before I dropped french that was my hardest school subject I studied

@@mosalah11thegoat , I agree. But it's still way easier. My French teacher gave us new reading tips every other lesson. She would say, open the end of your notebook and put down a new rule: oi = wa, boîte, soir, moi, toi etc.; oï = oee, égoïsme etc.

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​@@lixiecore your profile name though 😂💜💜

@@priyankasharma-rn2se hehe

Other poeple:why is it spelled that way? Me: Just to troll poeple.

I see what you did their.

​@@narfharder For once, this doesn't pain me to see.

@@PerovNigma _Us_ grammar notsies are so misunderstood - I just want to make all they're pain go away.

Congratulations! You just won every thing!

Neither Hear nor their Here nor they're Hair nor there Hare nor thare

Nah, the rules about French reading and pronunciation are always the same.

@@darinaangelova2882 seconde… femme… opportun… œuf… et plein d’autre :)

​@@Gachiya un oeuf iz not enuff

@@darinaangelova2882 not always there are still a plenty of exceptions in French phonetics it's just that English has way way more

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​@@amina-873 Also the pronunciation man💀 I dunno how im gonna master it

There is no clarity. There is confusion. There is no order. There is chaos.

@@Conta_Minated Well explained 💀

It's kind of their fault TBF - English was consistently Germanic before the Normans landed.

Lol me 24/7 😃

To France: WHY DO YOUR CHAIRS HAVE GENDERS!?!

n'empêche vous les anglais vous êtes difficile🤣🤣

English: also having a mental breakdown

⁠@@guilhmo7343 non! Vous etes plus de difficult.

🤣🤣🤣 I need to tell my sister 😜

lol 😂

Dyslexique

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No it's dislecksic

English. French is consistent in its spelling

​@@neekk040 Agreed. English has an entire dart board setup for trying to decide what syllable to use.

Meh. Russian literally changes the sound of consonants to random other arbitrary consonants by adding a b after the letter. The b has no sound. And doesnt always change the sound of the letter before it. Or has letters that are different but exactly the same sound. Ш is sh while Щ is shsh. But sound exactly the same you just drag out the shsh a little longer like sshh instead. Try to differentiate when speaking quickly in russian. Literal a tiny fraction of a second difference. Completely ignoring all the sentences that are exactly the same even though one is a statement, the other is a question, and the last is a sentence fragment, because they dont use connecting words like the. Same two words can say this is milk, is this milk, or this milk. Good luck figuring out which one when some drunk russian is yelling them at you. Or try finnish, where you just keep adding syllables to words to end up with full sentences. Or japanese where the placement of the character or the inflextion used when saying it determines if it means something entirely different that might get you disemboweled. English is complex. Just like every other language. The difference is that english is a more defined language. We say every part of the sentence (should, at least) and leaving out pieces changes the meaning. A lot of other languages use context and intonation to determine those changes. And dont get me started on what gender a table is. You know you feed your kids too much wine when you think a pencil needs to be masculine or feminine.

@@alexjanisse1952 Three of the few languages that English took one look at and decided, "mkay, nvrmnd, eheheh...😅😰" when looking for more vocabulary and grammar to steal. Didn't stop it from scooping up a few random words like "vodka", "sake", "umami", "sauna", "kefir", and a few more that aren't immediately coming to mind.

​@@alexjanisse1952your instructions for russian are shit. Ш is sh sound and щ is shch sound, so it is very different. Штук is [shtook] but щука is sh(it)ch(irch)ooka. Symbols for making the previous letter soft or hard (ь and ъ) does not produce random result. There are words in russian however that aren't read the way they are written (some letters get omitted in pronunciation) but their number are small and it happens with most used ones like you're welcome after thanks.

I have the opportunity to speak both of them. I can tell I’m with you 😂😂. Straight facts 😂 shit got out of hands

Haha.

Welsh enters the chat

@@becky2235 I feel that sentence needed more consonants somehow jammed in there.

The reason is French. Basically the normads (french) conquered England and brought their language. So now you have a language with words with roots in Germanic languages, old french and latin. Old french is based in Latin, but not always directly, while Latin still influenced the language. So you ended up with many words, the English or the English/french version. The words evolved and certain noises and letters vanished... And now you have a mess of language where phonetics makes limited sense

At this point in the evolution of the English language, learners basically need to memorize the letters in words the same way Chinese speakers learn the shapes of the characters. Recognizing patterns cannot save you from the multiple outliers.

French: Can literally form a complete sentence out of dozens of words that are all spelled entirely differently but pronounced exactly the same. Rules are non-existent. English: Has words that sound the same but almost never overlap with more than one other like word in a sentence. Context is important. People: "English is hard, lol!" Anyone who has learned French: "Shut up!" Also. A lot of those inconsistencies with English? They're quite literally the fault of the French and the standardization of printing. Have fun with that!

@@Unethical.Dodgson I learned French when I was like 5, didn't keep it up because the school I went to didn't teach it but as a child I could speak almost fluent French yet my English back then and to this day fuckin sucks. There are whole words that can mean the same thing yet be spelt entirely different, there are now words that are offensive but back then it wasn't rude or offensive it was just a word, people are now also giving words stupid meanings to them. English is hard and even if you learnt it as a child or even now you'd be learning more new words in the future because it keeps evolving and more words keep appearing and changing, words in other languages don't change as much as they have in English.

Lol it isn’t Try Arabic or Ukrainian

Believe, it may have confusing parts but English is relatively easy. French is a lot harder. I learned English when I was 12 and I was fluent in about 6 months (max). The average French person, even the ones who have gone to university don't all the rules of the Language. And Russian anf Japanese are both a LOT harder than that.

Same

This made me smile😊. Taking high-school French made me appreciate not having to learn English

Sometimes those frustrating phone systems don't understand a standard U.S. accent! 😅😅😅😁

"And this gold one with all the jewels on it..." Or a chalice, or a grail! 😁

Omg

Omg 😅🙈

English is 3 languages in a trench coat

Um... actually, that's almost precisely what happened. There was Germanic (the Angles,the Saxons, and the Jutes) conquering an island together. And they could kind of understand one another, and were slowly growing together. And then in 1066 French came along, burned down everything they'd built. So that's a basic foundational problem. Add in scholars being snippy and not wanting to update spellings to mach pronunciations, along with a mysterious "we just felt like changing everything" (aka the Great Vowel Shift that no one can explain), and that's why English is so messed up.

I don't speak italian but i hear that it has a "shallow" orthographe, meaning that each sound has only one way to be written

@@Whillyy Yeah, I took several Italian classes in high school. For example, the word, "cinema" the c would be pronounced as "ch" because a c + e or i goes "ch". That rule applies to pretty much every word, it's VERY consistent - which makes reading Italian super easy.

Yeah, though I still have quite some difficulties with understanding French because they 'liaise' a lot, so first I have to figure out what's the beginning and the end of the word ^^ And there are also vowels sounding the same, like 'eau', 'au', 'o', or 'ai', 'è' ^_^

Like the word psych

​@@beezwacksand sike

Psyche is both Sike and Sike-e

​@@bornasotoudeh4044no it's not. Psyche is two syllables, always. The one-syllable is psych without an e.

​@@lil_duck_XDsike is psych.

Most other European languages are pretty consistent. Even Russian and other Cyrillic languages are quite phonetical once you learn the alphabet.

You mean the one with 80 to conjugate every single verb?

I heard that is because there was once a Castilian king that basically wrote a dictionary and grammar book and forced his citizens to be literate… but I’m not sure any of that is real. It’d make sense, though, if putting rules to a language without popular use of slang gave it a lot more structure. To start with. Now it has mutated by pop culture.

@@Kurokami112 What about it?

@@spacewolfcub There are many myths regarding the Spanish culture, and they usually have a "king" in them. I don't know if that's true.

In Arabic, what’s written is what’s pronounced

​@@khaledannajarYeah sure, except for all the vowels that are pronounced but never written, called "Harakat".

In French, everything has a rule. In English, it is what it is.

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@@alioulay2701 they have rules unlike English. So learning the rules solves your problem

My goodness that is so funny 😁

Terry Pratchett (paraphrased)

Pretty much. And then got spooked a little when trying to shake down some of the Slavic languages, and then got spooked enough to stop trying with any of the Sino Tibetan languages.

I've always said that English married Latin, had Greek as a mistress, slept with French in a brothel, and blew German in a back alleyway.

Given the history of Great Britain, that's quite accurate actually

I'm a native english speaker and that through me me for a loop to say :)

@@xanderquinn6010 You mean threw? I'm not native in English, and I had to see that sentence pretty s....l....o....w...l....y. Once upon a time, I had problems with some of these.

Need to remove the "but" for the "though" to make sense. Its like saying "the red red apple". You already added that meaning to the sentence so adding it again doesnt make sense. You should say "English is difficult. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though." Or "English is difficult. Though through tough thorough thought it can be done." Though tbh, using "though" at the end is strictly more effort to understand then the early "but". That's why the second version with the "though" earlier is easier to understand.

I am so angry and also yes

But still it is a very simple language apart from idiotic fallacies like these. As a person having learned Greek as my mother tongue, I am far more glad than u kid

​@@pantelisdalezios811 Hey, just being curious. What's the differences between ancient greek and modern greek?

@@crypticlol If you understand it well, modern Greek is merely a simplification of Ancient Greek. Apart from some changes in words like "in" and "to" and some differences in the punctuational system, modern Greek is just ancient Greek with less vocabulary and more simple grammar. Also it has many foreign words like french and turkish ones, because Greeks came in contact with those people

In my case, I'm so glad I acquired a gaming addiction early in life... wait

That is the best way I've ever heard someone say they're glad they're a native speaker.

That's why this scene would make more sense if the one complaining was Italian instead of French!

Probably because he gets crap from universal all the time about this stuff.

The difference is that French is (mostly) consistent. English gives zero fucks about making sense with its spelling

And exceptions for that rules

Yes, yes it does

in part because of French loan words lol

I like to say that for every rule in English, there’s at least 3 exceptions for that rule lol

phonetically Russian is too to some extent because the stress of every word in Russian is almost totally random and has to shift among inflections

That is not the issue. French has many words that sound the same, yes, but at least the sound of the letters is consistent. With english, the same combinations of letters will sound different across different words, which is far more annoying

@@mahikannakiham2477 yeah, so English still got part of it from French. The whole -eau, -au, -aux, -eaux, -o, -ot, etc all sounding the exact same is the same problem English has, the latter just expanded on it. In terms of the characters, I imagine it going like this: “French made his language pretty complicated… Well, I’m gonna make it complicated-er to confuse him!”

@@jordinagel1184 In the meantime Italian is looking at both of them with disgust.

@@Nicamon I’m only starting to learn Italian, could you elaborate?

@@jordinagel1184 Both English and French have extremely inconsistent pronunciation rules...Italian either doesn't have any inconsistencies or has very few(can't be 100% sure,but we *FOR SURE* are much more consistent,phonetically speaking,than BOTH English&French!). Of course,talking about"standard"Italian,not considering the several regional accents.

I learn Malay/Indonesian. I think it's easier compared to most. No gender noun (as in Das Der Die of German), words generally doesn't change based on time (buy bought of english)

One doesn't *learn* English.. you just memorize it 👌😂

True!

Just be a native English speaker.

yeeahh, the Chinese way! you have a lot in common guys

That's why mastering english is a good task for stupid people. Any intelligent person would prefer to deeply learn another language.

Yes, Yes!!! Wait, that means the French language is madness, right??

If you've ever been through primary school yourself, you'd know what it is like first-hand.

MY BOY FRENCH HELLA FUNNY HE SAID “WHA QUOI?! POUR? HEIN? WHY?” 🤭🫣🤣😂🤣😂🤞🏾🫶🏾💯

​@@kkhaze le pauvre 😅 poor boy.. poor french 🇫🇷 😅

He’s adorable ❤️😍❤️

I mean they are actively trying to understand each other so there is no implication

English is easy. Gendered inanimate objects is where the madness lies.

this reel is real

The dear was deer to me.

English is not simple.

@@naxmax5634 english has the simplest grammar. You probbably only speak english and never tried learning another languege so you don't know how real grammar looks like. French is a latin language and has latin grammar, same as Spannish, Italian, Romanian and Portugheze. Chineze has even more grammar rules.

@@mcciukendaniel8930 Im' litterally a native French speaker.

French is Mad Hatter. English is Alice.

Sure a lot of tenses but extremely consistent in uses and suffixes

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Many still don't know the rules of each of those words and they are over 40

Yeji😂

If you're confident enough, you can even use words that don't exist.

​@@eidendelia4766 yeee

YEJIIIIIIII

@@eidendelia4766I WANNA VELOCIRAPTOR AROUND THE HOUSE. ANYTHING CAN BE A VERB.

Sounds like someone actually gave it some thought

It's true, just by hearing a word, you already have a very precise idea of ​​how it is written.

It is the same in Greek or Russian, they are languages with letters adapted to the fonetic. English is a mainly Germanic language written with Latin letters and that is a mess. For example, in English you pronounce 12 vowels and you have only five letters to write them.