No, because there are rules in the English language. The "e" in "women" versus the "a" in "woman" changes the sound of the "o." If you notice "ghost" also has a "gh" but doesn't make the "f" sound. English has rules, it's not randomly put together. (From an English Major)
Even as an English Major, even you must concede how fucked up the language is.
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I mean come on, I before E except after C has 923 exceptions... 21 times the number of words that actually comply with a "rule" that is taught when learning the language.
Every language has this sort of "issues" but English is a really beautiful language. I'm a native Spanish speaker and one of the greatest things I've ever done is learning English. I've seen a lot of posts here criticising your language and it makes me sad that most of you guys don't appreciate the wonderful things that your language has.
That means then that you do care. That statement implies that you have a measurable, nonzero amount of caring if it is possible to care less than you do.
Here's one list based on being a native speaker of English:
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-hardest-languages-to-learn-2014-5
Then there are cases where learning to speak it is one thing and reading and writing is hard. According to this article, Chinese and Japanese can be easy to learn to speak, but reading and writing on the other hand...
http://claritaslux.com/blog/the-hardest-language-to-learn/
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Lastly, I'll say that I have heard that (though I couldn't source it) is that English is one of the hardest, if not the hardest to learn as a second language. Mostly I think, due to the absurd number of exceptions to rules.
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I blame the French and the Roman for screwing up English.
How so? English started out as essentially the "gutter talk" of the poor commoners with loads of "stolen" words from Latin, German, Greek, French, Spanish and many others.
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The main reason there is such a stark contrast between Olde Anglisc, Middle English and Modern English is that it was still evolving, still being invented.
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Still is now, quite frankly.
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I mean come on, I before E except after C has 923 exceptions... 21 times the number of words that actually comply with a "rule" that is taught when learning the language.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-hardest-languages-to-learn-2014-5
Then there are cases where learning to speak it is one thing and reading and writing is hard. According to this article, Chinese and Japanese can be easy to learn to speak, but reading and writing on the other hand...
http://claritaslux.com/blog/the-hardest-language-to-learn/
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Lastly, I'll say that I have heard that (though I couldn't source it) is that English is one of the hardest, if not the hardest to learn as a second language. Mostly I think, due to the absurd number of exceptions to rules.
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The main reason there is such a stark contrast between Olde Anglisc, Middle English and Modern English is that it was still evolving, still being invented.
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Still is now, quite frankly.