The point is for her husband to remove the bush, not her.

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Or half a wife that expected someone else to move it for her.

Ah yes I forgot about the 3rd phantom option

Nah the spelling is consistent. The length is hardly an issue than asking a kid to spell a whole English sentence: most of those words are compound nouns that might even be similar in English, just that English uses spaces or words like ‘of’ in between.

“Wow German has a single word for a law about the transmission of tasks for beef labelling supervision!”

I mean yeah, the equivalent of ‘beeflabellingsurveillancetasktransmissionlaw’. Or if we break it down twice, ‘beeffleshlabellingoverwatchingoutgivingoverdraggingslaw’.

It’s not like German has a trillions completely different ultra long words primed for this. They can just be produced as part of the grammar without the convention of spaces. A lot of compound nouns in English could be treated as single words in the same way going purely based on the actual spoken language.

When English is regular, it's pretty easy. It just likes to throw some curve balls out there.

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In my eyes, if you have shovelled one spadeful of dirt out of the earth, that is a hole. It is a small hole, but it is still a hole. Therefore, it has gone from 0% hole to 100% hole instantly.

Ah yes, Les Immortels. Learnt about them through a Tom Scott video; they sound very, very protective when it comes to their language.

English is much easier than most other languages

Or the split stream that shoots to both side nowhere near the toilet!😡

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what is a 50% hole? It either is a hole or it isn't.

Narcissus did not have a mirror and yet, fell in love with his reflection. "The more you know"

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No I think they mean they heard or read it translated into another language where the spelling is much more consistent.

I'm speaking for Czech, Slovak and German, (they're not exactly perfect, but when compared to English... one could say they're very consistent and regular), according to wikipedia it's like that in quite a few languages (they're listing only languages with high degree of grapheme-phoneme correspondence, English is still orders of magnitude behind German and Slovak even if they're not in the list though)

Also, according to wikipedia, spelling bee exists in only 3 languages other than English

Well half a hole is still technically a full hole because a hole doesn’t have a defined size

This old chestnut. English isn’t particularly unusual in this regard. What’s unusual - though not unique - is having an old orthography that hasn’t been updated or uniformed to reflect modern pronunciation.

At some point during the hole digging process there is going to be half a hole, can't go from no hole to 100% hole instantly

Exactly what I was going to ✍️

Depends where. But the kids themselves are usually native speakers, and there’s not much difference in level of language level based just on parentage. Socioeconomic factors that effect general education level make far more of an impact when it comes to level of literacy.

If the desired hole was meant to be a specific depth or width then yes, you can absolutely dig half a hole.

To answer you questions, yes, yes, yes, yes, and lastly, meh, maybe, as a German native speaker I don't really have misinterpreted such words but that may not be the norm, don't know definitely.

You got it 🙂