For example, payday loans are explicit in saying they will charge you a percentage of your payday for a 14 day loan. But if you do the math, it's about 1000% interest annually
Yes, but they are categorized by phonetic mergers and splits. Once you understand which vowels tend to merge with each other (like the back vowels), it's not so hard
The most difficult ones are Scottish and Irish English, but they split earlier with some sound changes happening in the south of England in the 1600s that didn't happen in the north.
Standard Southern English and Standard American are mutually intelligible, modulo local slang
Compare to Chinese, where dialects that separated a few hundred years ago are not mutually intelligible. I mean like, different Hakka dialects that arose two hundred years ago are not understandable to each other.
1800s English is Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, etc. Imagine the language changed so much you can't understand any of it
I was expecting something about a monk who had to report to two masters at the same time; but as he reported, the state changed, so they were never synced.
It's not a crime either, but it's predatory