What about similar oddities in English?
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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Bought, caught, taught, fought, thought, sought, and wrought are all past tense verbs and all rhyme. The present tense forms are buy, catch, teach, fight, think, seek, and work, none of which rhyme.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Spanish is awesome. All its verbs in their regular form do end in "-ar", "-er" and "-ir".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The conjugations can get as weird as English sometimes, though. Case in point: Ser.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    "Me voy a ir yendo" can translate into "I'm leaving", but it is funny because you are using three times, in spanish, the same verb.

    Edit: I play with it and as a prank sometimes I translate it like if it were a chain of "going to". "I'm going to going to to"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    And that's one of the sounds "ou" can make.

    • there's "ou" as in bought
    • there's "ou" as in house
    • there's "ou" as in touch
    • there's "ou" as in group
    • there's "ou" as in boulder
    • there's "ou" as in famous
    • there's "ou" as in tour

    Inglish speling iz stoopid.

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