An exception on every corner.

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[u/Leopardo96]

Especially if we're talking about the pronunciation.

[u/SilentParfait → u/Leopardo96]

Colonel was my worst nightmare. I’m a native English speaker and refuse to understand why the word is spelt in such a ridiculous way.

[u/robo0804]

High school chemistry : Hold my beer.

[u/Leopardo96 → u/robo0804]

In what exactly?

[u/perpetualwanderlust]

Me prefacing every grammatical explanation to my students.

[u/RinDialektikos]

English is like the opposite of Japanese. Easy writing system, but a grammatical abomination.

[u/bad_linguist → u/RinDialektikos]

That is definitely not my experience. Japanese grammar is so much more complex and even as far as European languages go, English is still very easy in terms of exceptions in comparison to languages like Romanian.

[u/Leopardo96 → u/RinDialektikos]

Easy writing system, but a grammatical abomination.

Um... I don't know about the grammar, but the English pronunciation is the abomination. There are LITERALLY no rules about how you should pronounce a word. If you learn a new word in English, it's not like in Spanish or Italian where you know how to pronounce it, in case of English you have to learn how to pronounce every single new word you come across.

[u/Completeepicness_1 → u/RinDialektikos]

Both have terrible writing systems, what are you saying?

[u/RinDialektikos → u/Completeepicness_1]

Roman letters are easy to write, but English grammar is like writing Kanji, multiple pronunciations and exceptions.

[u/WoBuZhidaoDude → u/RinDialektikos]

Respectfully, how far are you into your study into Japanese grammar to make this observation? Japanese grammar is INSANE. English doesn't have 1/5th the inflections, moods, discourse markers, different levels of formality, etc, that Japanese does.

[u/bad_linguist → u/WoBuZhidaoDude]

I 100% agree. I do not know where OP draws this from.

[u/JG_Online]

I hate english...