“English is the greatest language on earth”. Today, I
consider this as a great statement. You also might be counting this statement
as something really valuable for many reasons. Your reasons may include
English is the language of globalization
English is the language of the Internet
English is the official language in 52 countries
1/4th of the global population understands it
1/3rd of them speak it to some degree
Etc…..etc….etc….. But my reason for considering this
statement as ‘great’ is not any of the above. Now you might be confused…then
what is my reason. So simple….It disturbed my sleep this morning with a lesson.
Lesson!!!! What lesson??? Let’s see
Someone was announcing about the greatness of English
through a mike for advertising their language Institute and unfortunately this
particular sentence had the fate to wake me up in this January morning, while I
wanted to cuddle my pillow and sleep. Till today, I loved English, but this
unfortunate event made me think about the negatives of English. Negatives!!!
Does English have negatives also? Your answer might be a No…, but my answer is
yes to a greater extent. George Bernard Shaw could state it, then why not me?
Mr. Shaw constructed the word GHOTI to illustrate the
irregularities of English language. The
theory elaborates the term Ghoti is the speling of the word fish. You must be
wondering how? Here is your explanation.
gh, pronounced /f/ as in tough /tʌf/;
o,
pronounced /ɪ/ as in women /ˈwɪmɪn/; and
ti, pronounced /ʃ/ as in nation /ˈneɪʃən/
Furthermore, here in this unphonetic language, we write Ghoti
and read it as fish, whereas in several other languages, we don’t need to be an
expert in the phonetics to read the language. In those languages, you only need
to learn the alphabets and vowels to read the language without any confusion. On
contrast, here in English, we read nature as nechar and future as foochar.
Now don’t you think that English is a stupid language? To add
your confusion, let me suggest you to go to the dictionary and find how unphonetic this language
is. This is only a small reason for this cause. There are several other
exceptions in English Grammar and style. But let me state that, with all these
irregularities , I respect English from the bottom of my heart. You must be
wondering why? Why am I taking such a double standard, right? The reason is simple. English could become the no: 1 language of the world with all these irregularities. With this feature, this language gave
me a great lesson. Your negatives do not prevent you to become a winner. Even after having a lot of negatives, you can
emerge as a winner. I must thank English for such a great lesson. I got this
lesson when I woke from sleep. So friends awake ignore your negatives and try
for a great life. You can achieve it.
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