If this article is interesting to you, and you speak English, I have a book to recommend:
And a podcast with the author:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/corpse-corps-horse-and-worse/
It turns out there are a lot of good (as in explainable) reasons why the language is so fucked up and broken. I found this a fascinating read.
Edit: Also, check out The Great Vowel Shift.
Also !linguistics@mander.xyz !
i’m always fascinated how media makes a hype around knowledge that has been well established in the science communities for decades. and i don’t think it helps, see climate overheating and ecological collapses. it’d be much better to adopt the knowledge in school curricilae early on, but i guess that’d cause too much conflict with the legitimacy of the ruling class and hegemonial narratives.