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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@Xylight When they taught you a really really important rule of the language and this rule has a little exception. Then another exception, also another exception, please add one more exception, around of applause for another exception, and another exception...

The cycle continues until you see that the "rule" should be the exception and all those "exceptions" should be the rule.

I before E, except after C. Except when your foreign neighbor Keith receives eight counterfeit sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters.

The rule with more exceptions than matches