Week of 1/30/12 Entry 1

I hate the english language. Do you want to know why I hate my first-language so much? An example is probably the best way to explain this.

Let's examine the word "fish". Technically speaking, you can spell it g-h-o-t-i. "How can this be?", you may ask. The answer is really ingenious: "gh" can be pronounced with an f-sound (as in the word "enouGH"), the word "women" gives "o" a short i-sound, & "ti" can be pronounced with an sh-sound according to the word "nation". This is the language you speak everyday (I'll explain my generalization of my readers in the next entry).