English can certainly be difficult! It can understood through tough thorough thought though throughout the learning process.
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If y'all ain't get the gist of it y'ain't thunk it thru enuff.
This was the easiest sentence to parse out for me...
No. It's shit
He said in English.
Do you speak other languages tho?
Yeah lol
English is the most adaptable language in the world. England got colonised something like seven different times up until the mediaeval age. The language that came out of the end of that process is precision designed to accommodate unfamiliar words and grammar. There's no better language to put a loanword into. And it's really easy to invent new grammar for English, which is why English has the most neopronouns.
English has sacrificed its logic and structure to grow fluidity.
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past tense read and toxic lead vs reading and leading if somebody doesn’t underntand
Careful, though: reading (past tense of 'to read') doesn't rhyme with Reading (place name)
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Adultery is not the opposite of infantry; whimsy is not an adjective; you can live together in an apartment; and the Midwest is in the Eastern US.
Why can I be overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but not perfectly adequately whelmed?
Nobody's stopping you using "whelmed". You can just start using it whenever the opportunity arises.
I use it occasionally, though normally not seriously, along with words where you have an "un" or "dis', but no positive equivalent, e.g. "gusting" as a positive "disgusting"
English lacks a "gusting" word, but romance languages don't.
e.g. in Italian "gustoso" is the opposite of "disgustoso"
That's a brilliant fact, and perfect example if anyone disagrees with me, thank you :)
lol I love "gusting." Next time I eat someone else's cooking, I'm throwing that out there.
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'Jam' can mean a fruit preserve, to play music, a stuck door, traffic, to cram something into something else, a tense situation, or to block a radio signal. All spelled and pronounced the same.
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the Midwest is in the Eastern US.
That actually makes sense because it's from the point of view of Europe.
It is from the POV of the original colonies.
the Midwest is in the Eastern US.
This explains some of my US geography confusion over the years...
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Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
That's the ubiquitous "what's that" in French. All languages are evil to newcomers.
You're welcome.
In German, "jemanden umfahren" means drive around someone,
while "jemanden umfahren" means run someone over.
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I would like to recommend Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language.
It's a pretty quick read and it explains exactly how the English language became such a mess. For each thing that doesn't make sense, it provides a reason that explains it. Short version: the timing of the Great Vowel Shift relative to the invention of the printing press really screwed it over. There's quite a bit more (Norman invasion in particular), but that was what codified all the badness.
Learning the "why" of so many previously preposterous language and spelling rules was gratifying and enlightening. They're still preposterous but slightly less maddening now.
There's also an excellent podcast interview with the author on 99% Invisible. Check it out. It made me buy the book and I definitely recommend it every time a post like this comes up.
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At least English doesn’t have a “she” table, a “he” refrigerator, and a “neutral” lamp gender for everything.
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English-language spelling reform now.
But let's only do it in some English speaking countries and not others! I am joking, but this is one of the reasons why American English has diverged from British English.
Relevant xkcd:
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Maybe start with the fact that not all words in use in English are English words.
Or that people in different parts of the world say/spell words differently and we inconsistently applied it:
Kernel and Colonel were the same rank but we took the pronunciation of the first and the spelling of the latter.
It's phunny how fotographs phunction in filosofy.
There is nothing more useless than ph.
Base and bass (sound the same) and bass (sounds different)
Foundation
Instrument /deep sound
A Fish
How anyone learns English is beyond me
"You said you were a great bass player!"
Me struggling to hold onto a huge wet slippery fish "Grimmie a second, geez!"
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Como enemigo número uno del Inglés, this post feels validating to me.
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As someone who speaks 3 languages, I can confirm english is a weak ass language.
It's strong point is that daily and normal speech and formal writing or speech are almost the same. Thats not the case with most languages, specially the older and more complex ones.
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My daughter is filled with laughter
And you can't spell manslaughter without laughter
In a way I think these things are what make English a beautiful and poetic language
To call any language shit immediately discredits any opinion on it you might have
In the ever so pretensious words of Walt Whitman...
"English is the greatest language ever!! It's as great as life itself! Also death!"
My brain got fired while reading this. 🗿
It is in the end parts of old englsih, French, Latin, Dutch, German and Norse duct-taped together and forced into a trenchcoat.
English is a bastard offspring of a four way language orgy.
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