ENGLISH: The Roots and the Fruits

I have not allowed myself to be angered by the feeble remarks made in the defence of the English language. I have been lashed at by some, in fact many, for misusing the Queen's English; some have even stretched it to the point of saying I am ignorant of the language. Quite frankly I don't disagree; in fact, I will agree that I am without much knowledge of this English.

What is English? According to the Oxford pocket dictionary for English, there is no written definition for English, cliché? However, courtesy of the global hub called internet, a definition for the language could be established. English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early Medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world. It went on to share information about the language sovereignty, and other irrelevant information. My point could be stressed validly, where not even the book that holds its very existence exempts it, but I'd rather desist from bringing my point from such an acute perspective.

I have undoubtedly spent all my school life doing the language, a sum of approximately 17 years. And at this stage of my life, I am still unable to manipulate my subjects and verbs to make them come to some mutual agreement. For example, I HAVE yet she HAS and they are HAVING, makes me want to puke up another language, any other form of recognized form of written and verbal communication. I fancy French, sorry I adore the language because I am a fanatic of simplicity, and everything is complex in its own right, yes, but English rewrites and redefines. Whenever something is started from simple basics, increasing it is often times
increasing its simplicity, but starting from a complex beginning, the inevitable result is that the simplest becomes complicated. The latter explains English. Take for example, two similarly spelled irregular verbs: Read and Lead, whenever conversion is required for the past tense.

    PRESENT                                           PAST
1. Read                                                    Read

2. Lead                                                    Led

Things like this are just too much for this mind of mine, one that indulges in the pleasure of simple thoughts. Because one would believe that from the conversion of the first, the latter could be anticipated. Well, apparently not.
NOTHING IN ENGLISH IS PREDICTABLE, NOTHING.
Not even the language and definitely not the people, which in light of them that speak it is somewhat a credible attribute.

Not to mention the homos, non-sexual in the occasion. The homophones, words that sound alike, spelled differently and carry different meanings:

1. Here, hair, air, heir, hear, ear
2. Fair, fare, fear
3. Beer, bear, bare
4. There, their

And the list continues......even as we are still experiencing an ever-expanding vocabulary. Ever year new words are recognized and are thrown into the 'Great Big Book of Everything', everything but English inside. On a more personal note, it is sad for someone who was born, and still resides, in a place where the primary language spoken and written, is English. It's the mystery of the universe, to struggle with grasping the very relevance of the language, with due respect to the Creator of languages.

I sometimes see myself in the future, reading the translated caption of an English movie still with total ignorance of Roots and the Fruits of English.