If English weren't so arbitrary and complex, it would be exponentially harder to detect scammers.
And don't forget detecting when the lower classes are in our presence. Without arbitrary rules strictly enforced, how are we to know who went to the "right" schools? Besides, what other useful things could kids possibly do with that class time other than learn the rules?
Makes me wonder how hard it would really be to change it. For example. Why can't we use k when the c sounds like a k.
kat, price, cirkle, cirkumference, kick.
And in the places where you left 'c' it sounds like 's'. You could just replace 'c' with either 'k' or 's' everywhere and get rid of letter 'c' entirely.
And that's how Finnish does it :)
C is bad enough, but how they fuck up the letters g and q... You hear the latter called "guu" more often than not.
kat, prise, sirkle, sirkumferense, kik.
I think if someone sent me those words I could parse it!
Saying those in with Finnish pronunciation was like speaking rally English :D
I just pronounced your comment the way it is written, and I did not like what I heard.
I automatically heard it in the voice of older Finnish politicians speaking english in the 90s