English is weird. Yup. Has many weird rule breaking things to it.

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Jan 17, 2023
2:06:23pm

RSL I am a dad joke

I before E except for the many times when it is not is another.

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RSL

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reason #247 why Spanish > English. The numbers 15 and 50 sound nothing alike.

Cougarclaw

1/17/23 1:40pm

I would think that would be reason #15. Or #50

UberDeek

1/17/23 1:46pm

Sorry. Spanish sucks at this. Try B and V.

RSL

1/17/23 1:47pm

Which one is chica?

JAGA97

1/17/23 1:50pm

V de VACA

RSL

1/17/23 1:56pm

B for burro is chico?

JAGA97

1/17/23 2:28pm

If you think this is obvious, I have seen college educated natives still get b and v mixed up

RSL

1/17/23 1:48pm

(meant to be a response to myself, sigh)

RSL

1/17/23 1:49pm

Well since Spanish has too many letters anyways..

Cougarclaw

1/17/23 1:52pm

it is the most common misspelling for educated natives when writing.

fulano

1/17/23 1:52pm

that and randomly throwing "H"s where they don't belong

RSL

1/17/23 1:55pm

I'll take your B/V mixup and raise you Pteodactyl and hors d'oeuvres

Cougarclaw

1/17/23 2:03pm

English is weird. Yup. Has many weird rule breaking things to it.

RSL

1/17/23 2:06pm

English word “the” better than many languages.

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