Letters in English are pronounced differently from their phonetics, oddly enough

English has no rules, we should all revel in the chaos rather than having our language be stringently defined.

You didn't address a single thing from the original post.

It was highlighting how English is a very quirky language. You can explain it, obviously there are reasons why, but it doesn't change the factual observation that English is a uniquely inconsistent language.

Most languages have some sort of academic body that dictates the correct usage of the language, and occasionally push for adjustments that resolve these inconsistencies. English does not, it's a crowd sourced effort with the results being what we see today.

Many countries and languages share similar backgrounds to English - invasion by foreign peoples, large migrations, etc - yet they've settled most of their background into a consistent ruleset - there's always exceptions and irregularities, but not to the level of English.

One of the largest sources of inconsistencies was the "Great Vowel Shift", along with the invention of the printing press at roughly the same time, which standardized a spelling that didn't reflect the massive ongoing changes in pronunciation.

This is a fascinating topic, but accusing others of ignorance for pointing out something that is a fact, is in itself ignorance.

I still don't understand though why Europe so many languages, a good chunk of it was in the Roman empire so you would have thought that they would all have a single unified language as a result of that but even in the Mediterranean there's different languages.

I kind of like how it’s ever changing and evolving, I know that sours some people’s pickles but I think it’s neat. I like how it incorporates and is built on so many other languages. I enjoyed reading a short story posted here a while ago that progressively walked backwards in time as a language and it was really neat to me. I’m an idiot though so most other languages probably do this also.

Do u happen to speak german? I’m studying it rn and it’s making me very grateful we live in an English speaking world :/

But let's only do it in some English speaking countries and not others! I am joking, but this is one of the reasons why American English has diverged from British English.

Relevant xkcd:

Speling Reeforma

If y'all ain't get the gist of it y'ain't thunk it thru enuff.

"flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing

Why can I be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but not perfectly adequately whelmed?

'Jam' can mean a fruit preserve, to play music, a stuck door, traffic, to cram something into something else, a tense situation, or to block a radio signal. All spelled and pronounced the same.

the Midwest is in the Eastern US.

That actually makes sense because it's from the point of view of Europe.

Or that people in different parts of the world say/spell words differently and we inconsistently applied it:

Kernel and Colonel were the same rank but we took the pronunciation of the first and the spelling of the latter.