Try being dyslexic and having to learn grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Not to mention reading comprehension. School is a place of torture......lol "English can be weird?!?!" Ha! More like English is the jigsaw puzzle of languages.
I remember in elementary school, the teacher cut out words in a sentence, and we had to make a complete sentence out of the words. Well, how am I suppose to know what someone wrote down, not a mind reader or anything. After that lesson, I was put in the slower reading class, which was fine by me. It's not like I cared what the sentence was in the first place.
Apparantly, Basque is the most straight forward language.