2025-12-24 12:21 UTC
Not angry at all, thank you for the concern.
And yeah, English is terrible, the absolute divorce between writing and speaking being the most salient point for me. But it’s the lingua franca, you can’t not speak it if you want to interact in the world stage. But, for all its faults, I’m glad it replaced French in this role.
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@davidagain@lemmy.world 2025-12-24 22:19
The invention of the printing press and of the dictionary at a time of great language change has been problematic for English spelling. Why do you feel English is better than French? I think English has most of the problems of French and then a whole bunch of its own, but I’m interested in your perspective.