linuxmemes

While I fully realize that this response is probably a waste of my time, hopefully this comment will at least be useful to someone else reading the thread.

English is one of the most fucked up languages, and in many ways different than most other languages.

Imma need a source for this claim, as well as a useful definition of a "fucked up language". Linguists unanimously agree that English is a mostly unremarkable language, outside of maybe its dummy-do support phenomena. Its /r/ phoneme is somewhat unusual, but nowhere near the least common sounds in human language.

English is, linguistically speaking, a pretty boring language, all things considered.

Possible reason: it is a hybrid language over-prescribed by racist and classist institutions, which currently serves as a lingua-franca and still rapidly evolves because of all the tech and marketing that happens in the US (in other words, what the fuck is a “slopometer”).

English is not a hybrid language. There are some who have argued that it is a creole (see here), but that hypothesis has mostly fallen out of favor among modern linguists, and either way I highly doubt that as a .ml you want to say that English is fucked up because it's a creole (implying that all other creoles are similarly "fucked up" languages, whatever that means).

And, while English does have a large percentage of loanwords (over 70%), that's nowhere near as many as, for example, Armenian, with more than 90% of its vocabulary being borrowings. Again, English is unremarkable here.

Next, all human languages show the results of prescriptivism - English is, again, painfully boring.

Hundreds of languages have served as linguae francae over the millennia - I don't suppose you'd want to say that Swahili is a fucked up language just because it's currently also a lingua franca? Once again, humans finding means to communicate is a universal linguistic phenomenon, and is not indicative of "fucked-up-edness", whatever that is.

Whether English (or any other language for that matter) evolves more quickly due to technology is a popular and divisive topic, with good evidence on both sides of the argument. It seems likely that tech does speed up some aspects of language change while also slowing down other aspects. Stating a conclusion here would be premature, but either way, this behavior is identical in all languages that see heavy tech use.

"Slopometer" is a neologism, which, again, all natural human languages have.

"/c/[insert_community_name]" is not necessarily linking that community, only invoking it to illustrate a point. "Badlinguistics" was a popular community on the other website for discussing comments like yours.

Speaking of which, your comment is badlinguistics because it clearly shows a complete lack of familiarity with the modern scientific study of language. Everything you said was not only wrong, but immediately and obviously wrong to anyone who has taken even an introductory linguistics course.