Pretty sure at least half of all English words are just made up shit like those lists of supposed collective nouns for animals.

Nobody has ever called a flock of flamingos "a flamboyance" BEFORE reading one of those lists, just shut the fuck up.

English contains nothing but words like "defenestrate", a word that 100% some smug fuck came up with the try to be cute.

You know what English needs more than some word for a knife you put a knight out of his misery with?

Fucking everyday useful words, like how about you try to remember to have an infinitive of "can"? Just forgot about that one huh.

Like, in most other languages I speak, I'd nearly daily use the verb for "to have the energy or strength to". Does English have that? Fuck no, it needed more different words for types of meat.

@WAHa_06x36 John McWhorter has a good audiobook about how uniquely strange English is, titled Out Magnificent Bastard Tongue. I enjoyed it.

@WAHa_06x36 tho I'll fight you on this. I can't wait for a ceo to say "wait don't throw me out the window" nah "don't worry my man, we defenstrate your kind."

@WAHa_06x36 There are only a rare few that I ever hear people actually using
"A gaggle of geese" is actually used and usually a "litter of puppies/kittens" is used but basically none of the other ones

@WAHa_06x36 that's a fuck ton of flamingos is way better man. Complex and obscure is silly. Assload of owls.