Jarlaxle
Gold Member
If we are looking at English as an official international language then the approach is flawed. English is not a very scientific language. For starters, it lacks consistency when it comes to describing sound. It heavily relies on context which leads to ambiguity. It will be tragic for humanity if English emerges as an official international language. However, it is at the moment a very practical and useful language skill to possess.
English is the worst language. The spelling is arbitrary and chosen by 18th century Anglican nerds who worshipped the Norman French aristocracy and so they wanted to retain the root spellings so that one could see which words came from the crude Germanic English vrs which came from the sophisticated French of the Norman ancestry.
Every other language based their spelling on the phonetic sound of the spoken word.
So we get to have words like trough, dough, tough, thought, fought, cough, and though.
Retards.
Actually, no...offhand, while Spanish is generally spelled phonetically, French emphatically is not! (Off the top of my head: parle, parles, parlet, and parlent are all pronounced the same.)