Languages have different orthography, get over it.
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Hating a language for its use in the colonialist mission being imposed on Indigenous and enslaved peoples to crush their culture is legit. Complaining because they have lenition or don’t pronounce all consonants is absurd.
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There’s a reason why languages are how they are: it may seem arbitrary and all language is invented but it doesn’t mean it’s nonsense.
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Growing up, it was hilarious to hear American tourists butcher Gaelic place names where I was.
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Doesn’t surprise me, see it all the time in Ireland
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Ah yes, English, the “pick a vowel, any vowel will do.” language. We stand on a leg made of hypocrisy

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I’m not saying English doesn’t have its own rules and internal logic. Again, not here to insult languages for how they work. Only to say that acting as though languages are bad because of their rules and to assume an Anglocentic mentality is wrong.
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Ah yes, English, the “pick a vowel, any vowel will do.” language. We stand on a leg made of hypocrisy
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