Tumblr crosspost (9 October 2020)

[anghraine]

I reblogged a thread started by someone complaining about the English pronunciation of "queue" ignoring most letters in the word, someone else pointing out that English "stole" it from French and it follows the rules of French orthography, the thread continuing with further English-French spats about the complicated rules of French orthography vs English's chaotic evil approach (not how they put it, lol), and my friend tulina (from Catalonia) saying "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

I said:

On the one hand: fair. On the other hand: it’s mainly French that screwed up English spelling, so…

Tagged: #normans: we have created a new form of speech! #everyone else: you fucked up a perfectly good language is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety #though seriously it is one hundred percent fair to judge anglophones for complaining about anyone's orthography :P