What are the most annoying things about English?

Xylight (Photon dev)@lemmy.xylight.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 17 points –

here's some I've noticed:

  1. Why do we have articles? They're mostly useless.
  2. Why do capital letters exist? (this is mainly an issue with the Greek and Latin alphabet though)
  3. Why is "I" used plural for verbs?
  4. Why are there so many inconsistent prefixes for tenses?
  5. 's is used for possessives. However, "its" is the possessive and "it's" is not.
  6. Why do we have another set of pronouns for possessive pronouns?
  7. Why do adjectives go before the noun compared to basically every other language?
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Why is there no adjective form of the word integrity? If someone has integrity they are _____? Because integral means something else so it can’t be that.

I suggest integratuitous.