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by CrystalLangUser 2943 days ago
That is not in any shape or fashion how languages are made. Language will never be logical, because humans are not logical.
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Many years ago, one of my Russian professors said, "All languages are about 85% logical and 15% illogical. That's how you know humans made them."

P.S. Russian is much easier to spell than English, but its verbs of motion are a real clusterfuck.

P.P.S. I have met more than one Russian who said, "Only foreigners decline numbers correctly."