Since the beginning of time, language has played a very important role in communication. Over time these ancient languages have evolved into the languages used today. However, no language is more stupid or redundant than the English language.

According to a Rosettastone article written by Jennifer Gunner, Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language and the hardest to learn for both English and non-English speakers. Despite this, the English language remains the stupidest language to ever exist simply because it doesn’t know how to be consistent.

For example, the words though and dough are spelled with the same “ough” giving it a similar sound. Extra letters can be added like in thorough and it will still carry the same sound. That should mean most words spelled like this sound relatively the same. Wrong. Because then there are words like tough in which the “ough” makes an f sound.

But that’s not the only inconsistency. Through also shares the same combination of letters but instead of making an o sound, it makes a oo sound making the word more like throo rather than what it should sound like, throw. All of these words end the same, and none of them even rhyme.

But the stupidity doesn’t stop there. Making actions into people also doesn’t make any sense. A person who teaches, would be called a teacher. Simple. A person who learns, a learner. Easy enough. A person who actively journals, is a journalist, not a journaler. But it gets better, a person might volunteer for something. But they’re not a volunteerist or volunteerer, they’re just a volunteer.

Then there’s silent letters and we hate those. For example, not is spelled simply, no silent letters. Then there’s knot. A silent k that does absolutely nothing except stand there and look pretty. Then there’s know. Even though it starts with a k and ends in a w, neither of those letters make a sound and yet they’re still there and they shouldn’t be.

Then, the bane of all existence, pluralization. Generally when a word is plural, the rule is just add an s. For example, eye, eyes, turtle, turtles. Simple. Then there’s goose, whose plural form isn’t gooses but rather, geese. Some words don’t even change. The plural of moose is still moose for some reason.

And then there is the ever so infuriating i’s. For example, cactus is the singular form, but the plural of it isn’t cactuses or cactus, it’s cacti. This isn’t the case with other words such as octopus or platypus, their pluralizaion is octopuses and platypuses. It should be octopi and playtypi. But even though it should be, it isn’t. And it all comes down to the simple fact that the English language is the dumbest lanuage, simply because it wants to be. It want’s to be different, and special but it isn’t. It’s dumb and it needs to change.