English breaks my brain... How is some languages end in -an, but others end in -ese, -ish, etc... [Open Discussion Thread on Languages and their Quirks]
English breaks my brain... How is some languages end in -an, but others end in -ese, -ish, etc... [Open Discussion Thread on Languages and their Quirks]
I mean:
English
Russian
French? (how did this happen? France --> French?!?)
Chinese
And someone from Afghanistan is an Afghan? How did the word get shorter not longer? 🤔
Also, why is a person from India called an Indian, but the language is called Hindi? This breaks my brain...
Philippines --> Filipino? They just saw the "Ph" and decided to use an "F"? 🤔
Okay idk how language even works anymore...
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English is a trash fire. It's a trash fire in pronunciation, in orthography, in grammar, in pretty much ever respect.
But my favourite thing remains 'ough': tough, trough, though, thought, through. All pronounced differently.
I remember years ago seeing someone online saying English beats up other languages in an alley and goes through their pockets for spare grammar.
That was probably spare vocabulary. :)
Comb
Tomb
Bomb
Womb