The MOST FRUSTRATING part about English! 🇬🇧😩 | Feli from Germany

But seriously, if you're frustrated, you're going at it wrong. English spelling is essentially pictographic--representing the sounds of words approximatively, like a choreographer's chart, rather than being an exact and consistent phonetic description: With pictographs what you get is arbitrary, silly, Old School stuff--things represented not as they are, but as what someone-or-other supposes them to be of-the-order-of. Bullshit. Still, that's what the written English language says about itself: What's important in English is where words come from, and how long they have been here--realizing that, in a language as old and multi-various in its parentage as English, much is demanded of the listener/reader, both of subtlety of perception, and of awareness of historical resonance. I'm sorry for those who think it's all much more fluid and immediate than that--but things have history. And language, after all, is a thing.