Why is the english language so shit?

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Bear, bear and bare. Clearly the two that are related are the one that means brown furry animal and the one that means having no clothes on. So why the FUCK is it that you spell bear the animal and bear as in to carry the same, when you spell bare naked differently? This catches me out every SINGLE time. And is now really getting on my nerves. I just nearly handed in an essay all about stripping Jesus instead of carrying him due to this stupidity. And I'm a native speaker so god help all the poor sods out there who are trying to learn this stupid evil crappy language from scratch.

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[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Real answer:
Because the language is essentially a mongrel language that also gets bastardised by its speakers, so all of the three above words have come from different roots and been mangled so that they sound the same. Before the Great Vowel Shift, I suspect they'd have sounded different.

Answer you probably wanted:
It's all a ploy to make mods more difficult. Eat ice cream. :-)

And I can testify that, to a second language speaker, it is bloody confusing.

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Poo. And none of those bears are related to Bear, who is hopefully on his way to you by now.

[ex-seasalt15.livejournal.com]

god help all the poor sods out there who are trying to learn this stupid evil crappy language from scratch.
Well... we learn it, initially, phonetically (we pronounce everything that is written exactly as it is written, innerly, although when we speak it we use the correct pronunciation). For us, bear and bare could never get mixed up, because they are written differently.