languages that lack a set of rules to correctly pronounce every word ever are mental illnesses.

Yeah, I don’t know enough about French grammar and pronunciation rules, but I think part of the problem comes from them trying to maintain a written language that got left in the dust by the spoken language ages ago. So instead of updating the written one, they chose to ‘preserve history’ and add a landslide of little rules explaining separate cases, not just for pronunciation, but in a hugely systemic way. Native French-speakers have actually complained to me about that occasionally.

I could give you any Spanish word you don’t know and you wouldn’t miss pronounce it.

I love that about Castellano, just that some regions speed it up so much that I can barely catch it.