r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Elegant-Mode9005 • Aug 27 '26

Ruined by Technology Got into a dumb 10 minute argument about whether the ACL and Achilles are the same thing or not. My idiot friend forgot to crop his screenshot before sending it to me...🤦

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u/NecessaryOk6815 Aug 27 '26

TIL.

Like seriously, how does a foreigner even begin to take on the English language.

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u/throwawaymentality10 Aug 27 '26

Its like 3 languages under a trench coat pretending to be a single language lmao.

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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat Aug 27 '26

And it goes around beating up other languages and rifling through their pockets for loose vocabulary.

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u/bearsinthesea Aug 27 '26

English spelling sucks, but other parts of the language (conjugation) are easier.