I’ve learned some Spanish and French, conversational in neither, but I know enough to understand how the languages are constructed and I have a decent enough vocab to feel like I’ve experienced the languages. French is just as dumb as English and worse in some places and Spanish is definitely an easier language to learn and construct sentences in.
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Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 1 month agoExcept for Esperanto has adequate rules and English is just a burning dumpster of shit-oil mix.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 month ago
Thank you for your eloquence.
cattywampas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
People act like English is the only language that has borrowed vocabulary or inconsistent conjugation and pronunciation, when a lot of languages are just the same.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
English seems to lean in a lot harder and consistently as time goes on compared to other languages.
hakase@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It isn’t though.
It may seem like it is, but English is actually becoming more regular over time in many dialects.
Dialects dropping the 3rd person singular -s, dropping irregular (and even regular!) plurals, dialects eliminating the subjunctive, and past tense/participle distinctions. In the phonology you have marked features like English’s interdental fricatives going away as well. All of these processes are producing less marked and more regular structures across the English-speaking world.
As always, there are processes countering these and introducing more irregularity, but as cattywampas mentioned, these are the sorts of processes that all languages are always undergoing. English really isn’t special - it’s just a natural language like any other.
cattywampas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Plus English is almost entirely gender-neutral, making vocabulary much more simple.
witchybitchy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
got some examples of what you listed in the second paragraph?