scott wrote:
>>> Why?
>>
>> Because it's an entirely different language?
> 
> If it's an entirely different language then why are half of English 
> words almost the same as German?

Well, for example, according to my school French teacher, the French 
word for "general" is... "general".

The thing is, the English pronounce it as /gɛnrəl/, but the French 
pronounce it as /ʒɛnɛrɑːl/. Which is quite different, in spite of the 
identical spelling.

I say again: the pronounciation rules are entirely different. (For 
French, it seems that the rule is, approximately, "ignore all consonants 
and just emit a series of slightly varying vowels".)

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