English is one of the meanest languages in the world. It persuades you when you start learning it. It tricks you into a warm gut feeling, making you believe that it is easy to learn and to master. What your teacher does not tell you: as a non-native speaker you almost never get past a point of basic understanding and even more basic capacity of expression.
Just one example is English spelling, which is extremely decoupled from pronunciation. There is a popular story about G. B. Shaw, where he sarcastically suggests to the English speaking community to spell the word fish as ghoti: f like in tough, i like in women, and sh like in nation.
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2009-10-28
English is evil: do you know the correct writing of the word "fish"? It's "ghoti"!
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Mittwoch, Oktober 28, 2009
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2009-09-16
Is christian belief caused by genetic disposition?
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Mittwoch, September 16, 2009
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Labels: atheismus, funny, gesellschaft, lustig, privat, satire, schwul, society, video, wissenschaft
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