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Black wife? Your post history says you have an Asian girlfriend and also makes it appear you are single. Which is it?

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Companies like that don't want the world to change.

Not exactly. Companies need to remain profitable. Sometimes new technology disrupts their business model and they react accordingly. If they can make money selling clean energy, they'll do it. They don't operate in a vacuum.

There are many reasons why English could be considered the craziest language. Here are some of those factors:

Isolation: English grew organically on an island in Europe (UK) and so influences often came in waves. Immigrants and conquerors who came to the island were cut off from their country of origin and adopted various regional Creoles.

Varied Origins: English is built from a wide variety of root languages including Anglic, Frisian, Saxon, Norman, German, Scandinavian, French, Latin & Greek. What's more, these influencers often came in waves. For example, many Scandinavian words were melded into English in the 9th century followed by 100 years of not much followed by another huge influence in the 10th century. So, even the roots were inconsistently adopted.

Evolution: By the sixteenth century, neighboring languages (such as French) were being strictly shaped and guided by academies of language, English evolved too quickly to be tamed by such endeavors. So regional dialects and pronunciations were not weeded out. English has also prolifically added new words without culling duplicates. For example, we might say bucket (Anglo, Norman, French) or pail (Dutch, Low German). Other languages would weed one out for the other but English happily accepted both. There are thousand and thousands of other examples (Brotherhood/Fraternity, Big/Large, Fall/Autumn). Sometimes they truly mean the same thing. Other times, there are subtle differences. You might watch a film or see a film. You might watch a television show but would never see a television show.

Spelling: As with other languages, the spoken grew first and the written came far later. In the 7th century, the original runic alphabet (Futhorc) was replaced by the Latin alphabet. This led to major concessions of spelling and pronunciation. Especially where the Latin alphabet was being asked to spell words that were not native to Latin. Again, regional creoles compounded this.

TL;DR English was formed on an island during a period of distant conquest and the adoption of the written word.

I didn't exactly have one, I was just replying to u/MeerkatUltra, but, do you speak any other languages and if so, do you think that knowledge helps you teach English?