A rant about English
The reason I love Sinhala so much is because the letters cannot be pronounced in fifty different ways. If English worked like Sinhala, corn, born, torn and worn would rhyme. The English language doesn't allow us the privilege of never or rarely mispronouncing words. I mean, even words like ball, bowl, sauce, source and call, coal. God! and gourd :D isn't bitter. But is. Then there are the silent letters. My question is, if we aren't going to say them, why have them in a word's spelling at all? What purpose does the b in debt serve? And don't use the whole, "most English words have other-language origins." Well, when a word is stolen from say Latin, make sure the Latin pronunciation rules don't matter. I already can't handle the rules of English, so you can't expect me to learn the rules of another language. So you get why English is so exasperating. Especially to someone whose mother-tongue isn't English. This isn'...