I’m sure all languages get proportionally similar amounts of flak, but crucially it’s in their own language. You don’t see anyone making fun of Korean because you (presumably) don’t speak Korean and don’t go to the same kinds of forums where such mockery is more likely.
Source: I speak Hebrew and we make fun of Hebrew all the time.
mrsemi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I didn’t even understand the joke at first because I read it correctly.
English is an adventure.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Every language is like this. English gets more crap because ~60% of the world speaks it
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 week ago
English has a LOT of homophones AND it barely inflects anything. That’s certainly not “every language”.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yrah the fact that words in english barely ever change form regardless of context is quite different compared to many other languages.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I’m sure all languages get proportionally similar amounts of flak, but crucially it’s in their own language. You don’t see anyone making fun of Korean because you (presumably) don’t speak Korean and don’t go to the same kinds of forums where such mockery is more likely.
Source: I speak Hebrew and we make fun of Hebrew all the time.
mrsemi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Would you like to buy a vowel
marcos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Most western languages are way less ambiguous than English. But yeah, every one has some stuff like this.