It seems to me that you’re making a strange argument throwing bugs and features into the same pot. The fact that other languages have different complexities does not make one language more or less broken.
It seems to me that you’re making a strange argument throwing bugs and features into the same pot. The fact that other languages have different complexities does not make one language more or less broken.
Phrasal verbs can often feel weird and arbitrary.
Many of them are more or less intuitive:
But then there’s:
Putting out the fire is pretty strange taken literally. Out where?
The fact that they’re the exact opposites of the above doesn’t help.