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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every language is like this. English gets more crap because ~60% of the world speaks it

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    English has a LOT of homophones AND it barely inflects anything. That’s certainly not “every language”.

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yrah the fact that words in english barely ever change form regardless of context is quite different compared to many other languages.

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • mrsemi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Would you like to buy a vowel

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      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If they’re as useless and ambiguous as they are in English, we’re doing fine without them, thanks :)

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most western languages are way less ambiguous than English. But yeah, every one has some stuff like this.

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