This is a question about the letters C, Q and X. Why do they exist? C is already an S or a K, Q is a K and a U put together, and X is a K and an S put together.
Also X can be a Z for example in the word xenophobe.
I'm not good on the history off eeerrr.... (what is the proper word for letters?) but since there are so many languages mixed together now (English has French words, Germanic words, Latin words etc.) that often the reasoning behind such literary quirks have been lost. I can only guess that at some point in history it made sense to have it this way to someone and things tend to stick around.
"C" is odd since it does share phonetics with "S" and K" (Konsept?) but the "ch" sound is needed especially since it is easier than say... tsh (tshurtsh?)
Also, C is needed to form the S sound when the S is unable to do so, ie. between two vowels. Take the word 'Receipt'. If we put an S in instead of the C it would sound like 'Rezeipt'. You could counter this by doubling up the S, like so 'Ressiept', but this would put too much emphasis on the 'Ress' making the pronunciation off. While possible it's much simpler to have another letter to take it's place.
Q, or QU as it is nearly always grouped, does not sound like KU. It sounds like KW. Take the word 'Quail'. 'Kuail' would not be pronounced the proper way while 'Kwail' would be. This letter is pretty much for retards to guess on the final round of Wheel of Fortune.
Finally, X. X has several different sounds it can make, depending on where it is placed in a word. If we look at word 'Exile' we could easily change the letters to sound the same, like 'Eckszile' or 'Eggzile'. X is simply there to facilitate this process and avoid awkward spellings and letter combinations such as the SZ above.
Pretty much while we could make do without the letters it is far easier to use them in place of multiple letters to achieve the desired sound. I hope you enjoyed reading with grammatical wall of text that I just pulled out of my a*s.
Y'know, other languages besides English use the Roman System of Writing. With that, they have different pronunciations and spelling to boot. Just because our language doesn't fully use them doesn't mean they don't...
Y'know, other languages besides English use the Roman System of Writing. With that, they have different pronunciations and spelling to boot. Just because our language doesn't fully use them doesn't mean they don't...
That's right take German for example or spanish...without q and z spanish would be screwed up, and same with german...
the complexity of or language was built on the intend to keep immigrants from coming over to learn it, not american but in general, who would wannna learn a hard language?
