Comments by "Delibro" (@Delibro) on "RobWords" channel.

@simonchilli2088 For what reason is this potshot? Apart from that, his English sounds more natural than your sentence. And I'm not claiming to be good either.
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@simonchilli2088 Yeah. I thought you meant John. My main point was, why the potshot?
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@gabenugget114 What is wrong with same sounding words being written same? Actually, doing it differently is weird. And no, I don't think differentiation is an argument, as many words are written the same and you get the meaning out of context. And also historical roots are no argument, cus the primary purpose of writing is to transmit information, not to teach old/foreign writing.
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@TheFlyingDogFish That's it. And much more important, so many languages use the alphabet like this, I'm German and I would write this sentence very similarly like Tuomas as a Finn wrote it. Italian people would too, so many would. Mainly English and French don't.
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@Neil070 As your are right in the spelling, mainly French an English are way more weird than most other languages. But all in all German is harder to learn than English and the rest of the Germanic languages. Compared to other language families though, the German language family is one of the rather easier language families to learn.
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I think you are the first person on earth learning French and German before English.
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@SiriusMined It changed its connotation in the last century - around 1940 and before it was a proper word like wife in English, but often also for women in general or non nobility women. Old people nowadays sometimes use this word with this meaning, but the man being of "higher rank" than a woman is involved. And nowadays young people will only use Weib to more or less talk down on a woman. The modern word for woman is "Frau" and the word for wife is also "Frau" or "meine Frau" ("my woman"). "weiblich" and "Weiblichkeit" did kept their neutral or positive meaning.
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@KingOfSciliy That doesn't answered Davids question. Understanding dialects is not much related to writing rules.
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@b.a.erlebacher1139 Never encountered the word female being used derogatory. But English isn't my first language, maybe that's why.
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@SurnaturalM That's interesting.
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Why should we make a difference in voiced/unvoiced s when so many other differences are not addressed at all? When many dialects of multiple languages don't even differentiate the s?
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@jonadabtheunsightly All three arguments wrong in my opinion: 1) No we haven't, todays spelling orients at a standard dialect, so we can with IPA. 2) No need to. And many words of todays spelling tell it either. 3) Oh yea this is true, my fault ... I would like IPA...
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@b.a.erlebacher1139 In German nowadays "Weib" is used nearly exclusively on a private basis, not in a speech or a formal document. Old people would use it sometimes with no bad intention, cus 70 years ago it just was common sense that men are superiour. Medium and younger people would simply use it as a swearword.
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@Magenta McGonigle No? It just doesn't have fixed plural rules. (Edit: sry, wrong adressee)
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@hanswurst2490 I don't agree with all of what you wrote. So tell me the rule of English spelling.
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@hanswurst2490 I didn't said that I expect anything.
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@w.reidripley1968 I meant that most vowels can sound like many other vowels in English, some consonants have weird sounding too. In many other languages (e.g. Finnish, Spain, Italian, Portuguese) that is not the case. This was a reply to Hans who sounded to me like only German has weird rules.
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But writing is no history lesson, why on earth should the relation be important beyond history??
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