it's true you really can't argue with that

english does what it wants

kid ain't wrong

SORRY ABOUT OUR MULTI-PAGE LISTS OF EXCEPTIONS TO OUR ALLEGED RULES, KIDDO

a lot of the spelling makes more sense when you learn about all the letters we dropped, at least

a lot of the weirdness is adaptions for, like, norse letters that weren't part of the latin alphabet

english is so ridiculous

remolacha: counter argument: french

which i (sort of) speak, and the pronunciation is internally consistent, much more so than english

it just follows different phonetic rules

mangez? mangeait? PRONOUNCED THE SAME

when does this action happen? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS, WRITE IT DOWN SO YOU CAN TELL

(it's not that bad but my husband gets comically angry about french phoenetics)

anyway: much of the reason english spelling is bullshit, explained

Good thing about Spanish is we say it like it's written

Which means when we try to pronounce English it's catastrophic

watching me try to read spanish is hilarious

"that's not how that's pronounced" "yes it is" "IN FRENCH MAYBE"

written they're close enough that i can usually figure out the meaning, but i open my mouth and it's catastrophic

Same here

My biggest problem is always the r

/rrrrrrrrolls them

i can't roll the spanish r but i can do the french one

also americans love rolled r's so you're okay

Erre que erre

Another thing kids don't get: how can things not have gender

high-class english (like england english) roll the r, too

*english accents

Table is a she! No it isn't kiddo it's an it

only shit that moves has gender!

but again, we think it's cute if you use gender on objects so nbd

I do that all the time tbh one day I will stop

SO ADORBS which is not necessarily what you want to project but really if you slip sometimes no one will care

or huge douchebags but they'd be douchebags in any conversation

Ftr plurk is male, the plurk app is female

Why ? I DUNNO

noun gender makes fuck-all sense

Both!

table is feminine

why

who knows

in french lock and key are both feminine and you'd think that'd be one of the easiest examples of intuitively gendering something

though thank you french for sparing me five solid minutes of guys going HURRRRRR in my high school french class

All planets are masculine but earth is la tierra????

"planete" is feminine in french

Nope el planeta júpiter

sun is masculine and moon is feminine :|9

star is feminine

Yes that's the same!

Meteor masculine

brb looking that one up

masculine!

I formally apologize

Also a computer can be both: el ordenador or la computadora

Everyone else: it's a fucking computer

are you teaching the babbies how to use "fuck" appropriately?

but which i mean "fucking constantly"

*by which

NGL I USE FUCKING A LOT SO I HAVE TO USE A LOT OF SELF RESTRAIN

Also ellie you should probably ignore most of what I say because you probably study South American Spanish

We're the stuck ups of Spanish

you miss out on the bittersweet pain of wondering it this person is using usted to be polite or you really do look that old