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100% agree with you on that one. And while we are it, now that we live in the computer age, why aren't we huffman-coding the whole language? that would be heck of a lot quicker instead of all slowing down to help the bunch of illiterates who can't remember the pronunciations.

It's actually the French who are being normal. And the rest of European part of Indo-European language speakers.

Une langue qui se simplifie sans arrêt n’est pas systématiquement meilleure.

> know how to pronounce words without any hints like we do in English

Ha ha. Thanks for making me laugh. Of course it's the native English speaker utterly blind to the barbaric rules of his language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos

Cough, though, tough, ...

Good luck guessing the pronounciation just gotta learn it. Clearly the superior system.

cough: la tout (f.) Or un toussement (m.)

Actually, if they used accents to denote, whether a word was male or female, I would be totally down.