Hi Dark, Best guess is because of the origens of the language. English started out as a Germanic language when England was concored by germanic tribes, and over the centuries English speaking people adopted or borrowed from several other languages. We get words like mirage, ambience, bureau, plateau, shateau, and crayon from French. We get most of our scientific terms like psychology, biology, chemestry, and so on from Greek. Here in the U.S. there are lots of places and things named after Native American people, places, and things. The end result of all this mixing of languages is that even when we set rules for phonix and spelling they don't apply to every word in the English language as a hole.
For example, in high school I took French. The phonix rules are very very specific. Most of the time if you hear the o sound at the end of a word like plateau, shateau, bureau, etc you should automatically think e a u. If you hear an a sound at the end of a name/word it often times is an accented ay followed by a e like in Renee. If I hear, voo, I know it is spelled v o u s because the o u s sound makes that oo sound. I found the language quite enjoyable because the spelling was pretty much the way it sounded based on the phonix rules for the language. I actually got higher grades in French class than I did in English class. Now, I only half remember the language. Lol! On 2/22/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > yep, english is a silly language. > > Why it can't be phonetically spelled like spanish or Italian I don't know. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
