Because they chose words and sounds purely based on whether they sounded pretty.

Ignore me. This thought was based on false information that I neglected to fact check 😔 learned my lesson there! Apologies for any hard feelings!

Source of correction: a literal linguist 🤦‍♂️

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    … as opposed to English, which was carefully crafted by experts scientifically putting each word in exactly the right place and deriving the most consistently logical system of orthography.

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      Of all the languages I think English is pretty high in the vibe list. A bit of this, a bit of that, who knows or cares how well it works.

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      Nah, English is the result of splicing together llm output, two stack overflow answers and some custom code with a //TODO: refactor on top