• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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        6 hours ago

        Also before the English fixed their spelling in like 1500, and then did 500 years of sound shifting. It needs a spelling reform, desperately.

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        The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.