Ah, English. It's so irregular, that if you try to fix it, you'll only make it worse. Laughter but daughter, and rough loughs. Gauge and champagne, a bunch of bologna. You can see already it is jeopardy. But don't let me see the sea. Friend, go fish for some ghoti.

(warning, IPA) I see "ghoti" a lot but it wouldnt work, english is irregular but a lot of it is context based. Yes those letters will give you fish but not when taken out like that. With what we have "ghoti" should be pronounced like /ɡəʊʃ/ back on topic, english sucks

A, E, I, O, U, why? Nobody in the world says it like that. Time for a reform! If wii spel stuf laik this, ther wil bii no moor trubl and evrywun wil bii eybl tu diil with Inglish speling. Evn yur grandperents can diil with this! [spoiler]If we spell stuff like this, there will be no more trouble and everyone will be able to deal with English spelling. Even your grandparents can deal with this![/spoiler]

(My french brain cant handle that sentence aaaa) Spelling reform yes #bringbackrunes2017

Uh..., I forgot. Maybe we could try that! If only I could type that. Or maybe I could just find a virtual keyboard. ᚹᛖᛖ ᚻᚨᚠ ᚾᚨᛟ ᚱᛖᛖᛏᚢᚱᚾᛏ ᛏᚢ ᚦᛖ ᛞᚷᛖᚱᛗᚨᚾᛁᚲ ᛊᚲᚱᛁᛈᛏ. Transliteration:Wee haf nao returnt tu þe dgermanic script. Translation:We have now returned to the Germanic script. I had to use the F rune for V (FF is F), AO for "OW" and DG for the J sound. By the way, do you speak French?

Oui je parle français But I tend to speak english in english communities

Frum nao on, wee need too make Inglish grate agen (or agane). Beecus Inglish speling woz (or wuz) oanlee grate in the Oaldr Inglish daes. [spoiler]From now on, we need to make English great again. Because English spelling was only great in the Older English days.[/spoiler] [Could someone come in and please move this topic to General Chat because it is too serious?]

In b4 move to general chat. Agreed tho English iz verry stranje

Translated quote: [quote="Morrad1991"]In before move to general chat. [sic] Agreed though English is very strange[/quote] Blame those educated 16th century scribes (who wanted to make English spelling reflect etymology) and the Normans for corrupting English. You could also blame the Great Vowel Shift for those dreaded different vowels.

Usted habla Español, señor?

No, no, no, y no. I need a list of cases (by that I mean, those you learned in Latin class!). I only know a few basic words, such as some words for colours (rojo, amarillo, azul, naraja, rosa), animals (el gato, el perro, la llama (which is in English)), articles (el, la, los, las), pronouns, (yo, tú, usted), et cetera. From what I've found, Spanish spelling is so much more logical than English spelling. You needn't have to deal with illogical spelling after learning the straightforward spelling rules.

English is pretty easy to spell actually if you can make a guess at the root language of the word

[quote="Yoshin"]English is pretty easy to spell actually if you can make a guess at the root language of the word[/quote] Busy. I have no clue why it is pronounced "BI-ZEE". And it is a native English word.

This reminds me of a joke. The world, fed up with how noone can understand each other, finally decides to agree upon a common language - however, while the rest of the world is fine with it being English, the Germans, efficient as they are, believe we should be speaking German, as English has so many confusing, conflicting rules. After many years, however, the world is finally able to reach a compromise - we will start by speaking English, but gradually change the spellings and pronunciations of words so that all the silly, confusing rules are wiped out. After one year, the soft "c" would be replaced by the "s", and the hard "c" by the k. Not only would this klear up one letter on the keyboard, but it would make sertain words easier to spell. The next year, the "ph" would be replased by a simple "f". Words like "fotograf" are now shorter, and less komplikated to spell. The third year, double letters would be erased, having served no real purpose, kausing nothing but trouble. It's also ben rumoured that the silent "e" would also se disus, sins after al, if a leter is silent, why is it ther? The fourth year, peopl would replas "th" with "z" and "w" wiz "v". Finaly, during ze fifz yer, ze final rules to fuly transition to a mor efisient English wil be komplet, and ve vill be speking German just lik zey vanted in ze first plas.

[quote="SMBXfan"][quote="Yoshin"]English is pretty easy to spell actually if you can make a guess at the root language of the word[/quote] Busy. I have no clue why it is pronounced "BI-ZEE". And it is a native English word.[/quote] Thats the germanic part of english shining through

Lojban is the true language

No, Volapük is! [spoiler]O Fat obas, kel binol in süls, paisaludomöz nem ola! Kömomöd monargän ola! Jenomöz vil olik, äs in sül, i su tal! Bodi obsik vädeliki govolös obes adelo! E pardolös obes debis obsik, äs id obs aipardobs debeles obas. E no obis nindukolös in tendadi; sod aidalivolös obis de bas. Jenosöd![/spoiler]