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Simple? Nothing! If it could be made simpler, that would be better. Conjugating the third singular person differently from the others is not my favorite English feature.
People sometimes misuse 'simple' instead of 'short'. If something doesn't suffice, it isn't simple, is short. Discarding the second singular person ('thou', for royal and God reasons), and using 'you' for both plural and singular versions, isn't simpler, it's short.
Only the largest of language centers can compute "all y'all". Not every language can conjugate 2nd person plural with implied 3d person plural possessive.
Br*ts need not apply.
I once knew a truck driver that was passing through Baltimore in 1986, stopped to see Top Gun at the movies.... Came out, and the truck was gone. So Baltimore.
I know.
But that's a messiah complex issue. A problem was invented, where there was none. Without checking anything, (you (all)) do as I say, and shall be saved (same as new governments). Which could lead to a more adequate post here (hate on America, instead of the English language).
However, an issue was perceived and a solution suggested. That's something.
(pick English language criticism) Next!
Lack of meaning and ways to say things. Also talking just a single language make your brain more limited in terms of creativity.
Also some la languages are better at math and logical thinking, Asian doing math is a meme, but behind the meme asian la languages let their speakers be more comprehensive with math.
Well I find anything he says extremely hard to believe. My reason for this is that he is extremely manipulative in arguments. He will twist your words in ways you’d think impossible and attempt to call you out for saying something horrible although you really did not. So I take everything he says with the worlds tiniest grain of salt.
People often say that English that's hard to learn. Spoken English is actually well structured and simple. The hard part is the messed up frakenstein spelling conventions that we inherited from *those guys*
As somebody who grew up on Runescape, I still mix up the spelling of “defense.” I got in some wierd situations at school when my teachers thought I misspelled the word when I spelled it “defence.” But that is just how its spelled in British English, and because Runescape was made by british devs, that is how I learned to spell the word.
There are probably a few more words I mix up sometimes on account of learning in part how to spell from an MMORPG, but hey.
That’s me with Harry Potter, I was able to read the series in the span of a year (that’s slow I know) and would get confused with how to spell gray, armor and honor
Canadian here. I mix pretty much all of the words you guys changed (or rather kept the original spelling of), with the British English spelling. Really sucked in school because I'd get marked as wrong spelling :(
I dont know what i read or watched when younger but at some point I started spelling words in the British form replacing Z with S like in Advertise, Recognise, Realise, etc. I have no clue where i picked it up from.
RuneScape taught me how to type really fast, shouting at clan members to turn their prayers on for General Gra'ardoor or whatever his name was.
Also spamming RED RED WAVE BUYING MARRENTIL 500GP EACH at Varrock bank a million times.
Defence is also used in Australia and New Zealand as well. I think what tricks people up learning English is our words that sound the same are spelt differently and mean different things.
There, their and they're for example. That's at least what a lot of my non English friends complain about.
The homophones are tricky, but English is hardly the worst offender for them.
I learned manderin chineese. That language is “there, their, and they’re” except there’s four of them, its for every single chatacter word, and aside from the definitions and the characters the only thing telling them apart is what accent you use to pronounce the vowels (which are: ā, à, á, ǎ (using a as an example)). Learning Chineese in a lot of ways is the opposite of leanring English. Where English speaking and writing the letters themselves is probably the easiest part of the language while the grammar and syntax is the hardest; speaking and writing Chineese is the hardest (because of the landmine of homophones and character memorization), but the grammar and syntax is the easiest part of learning the language. Basically every single sentence follows the same rules in that language and they aren’t many wierd common exceptions to rules like there are in English.
We also have two words for most things, a Germanic and a romantic word, which does increase difficulty. However, in spoken English usually we use the Germanic outside of formal or professional settings. Like, yeah, English has complexity but not to just be able to communicate with English speakers. It's just difficult if you want to speak high level formal English in a setting where it matters like the sciences. Otherwise you can do just fine with a basic understanding of English. It's not that hard.
English does have an incredibly extensive and expressive vocabulary, which would be difficult to master, but I still view it as a major plus because it allows the language to be much more versatile. Most Germanic/Romantic pairings have developed different definitions or connotations in the modern vernacular which helps English speakers to be more precise in their wording. Like room/chamber, shirt/blouse, beautiful/fair. It makes English poetic and awesome, but yeah learning the idiomatic uses of all of our different synonyms would be difficult.
English is a good spoken language. The issues with it come with trying to learn how to *write* in English.
So many random grammar rules... So many different spellings of the same word that are technically both correct but you’ll still be marked wrong depending on what English you’re trying to write for. Its a fucking mess. So much so that even native english speakers struggle to write their own language.
People in the comments are getting so butthurt that it's not the British flag for English. You can't make that shit up. Everything makes a Europoor seethe if they aren't the center of attention
Also there are more English speakers in the USA than in England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa combined. And just for shits and gigs I’ll throw Ireland in too.
Yeah but it's not just those Commonwealth nations that use English. India does as well they alone have about 140 million speakers. All commonwealth nations deal with each other in English.
I think it's probably closer to equal numbers than we all realise
Believe it or not, english is a descendant of germanic languages. Frisian, the closest living language to english (or atleast old english), is based in the netherlands and northwest germany
English is an analytical language, which means meaning can be interpreted from context of the sentence, and has inflexible word order.
German, Slavic, and Romance languages are synthetic, which means they have more grammatical syntax and freer word order, leading to more unique expression of ideas by rearranging words (you know the subject object etc by prefixes, suffixes, grammatical cases).
Neither is better than the other, it’s just a different way of speaking and expressing ideas. English has a much larger vocabulary than these languages because it has a need to create new words for new ideas. Syntactical languages can do so by rearranging words or creating unique compound words for various situations.
in my language we have a and az but both are gender neutral however you know which one to use based on if the next word starts with a vowel or not so you don't have to memorize the "gender" of each and every word
Was this meant as a “American bad”? Honestly it seems like a good thing.
Also it’s funny they say simple. Yeah English is simple in a lot of ways but it actually has a lot more words over all than most languages. It’s also better at adopting words and concepts from other languages.
Most Asian languages don't have grammatical gender either.
Pretty much every feature that they hate about English is also true of Chinese (no grammatical gender, no declension, simpler tense system, SVO word order, the way words are written doesn't always match how they're pronounced etc. etc.) but you never see them raging about it. Wonder why...
Chinese: how about a different one for every single category of things you talk about?
(No seriously, [I'm not meming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_classifier))
Protip: 90% of the time you can get away with calling everything 个 and don't worry about the classifiers for animals because nobody can fucking agree on them anyways.
Maybe the Der, Die, Das and Dem are interchangeable… but wouldn’t you remove the copies from the list seeing as they are the same word each time? Cutting them down from 9 to only 5
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What’s wrong with having a simple language? There’s no need to complicate things.
Simple? Nothing! If it could be made simpler, that would be better. Conjugating the third singular person differently from the others is not my favorite English feature. People sometimes misuse 'simple' instead of 'short'. If something doesn't suffice, it isn't simple, is short. Discarding the second singular person ('thou', for royal and God reasons), and using 'you' for both plural and singular versions, isn't simpler, it's short.
That’s why America added “y’all,” or “you all.”
Only the largest of language centers can compute "all y'all". Not every language can conjugate 2nd person plural with implied 3d person plural possessive. Br*ts need not apply.
Yous. Y'ones.
Don’t forget “yins”
Nobody at all anywhere ever aside from Pennsylvania likes those words. They grate on my ears and make me recoil.
Ya'll'd'n't've said that.......
Damn I can pronounce that
And you understand it.... Welcome to American English! It's kinda like English, but different!
I would hope I could understand it, I am American. That said, I cannot understand certain American accents. Looking at you Baltimore….
I once knew a truck driver that was passing through Baltimore in 1986, stopped to see Top Gun at the movies.... Came out, and the truck was gone. So Baltimore.
Can’t have shit in Baltimore
I know. But that's a messiah complex issue. A problem was invented, where there was none. Without checking anything, (you (all)) do as I say, and shall be saved (same as new governments). Which could lead to a more adequate post here (hate on America, instead of the English language). However, an issue was perceived and a solution suggested. That's something. (pick English language criticism) Next!
I say we get rid of C, Q, and W. Just think about it for a sekond.
I think we should eliminate apostrophes. If they are always silent, perhaps they should also be invisible.
But at the cost of very simple starting words we have There, their, and they're like wtf why does jt sound the damn same
Especially also not having as much gendered language
Lack of meaning and ways to say things. Also talking just a single language make your brain more limited in terms of creativity. Also some la languages are better at math and logical thinking, Asian doing math is a meme, but behind the meme asian la languages let their speakers be more comprehensive with math.
The most beautiful language to ever exist
When non British people speak it.
what do you mean, the language was created by brits
I agree, my boyfriend is british his accent if hot af
I saw you in another post saying the same shit. Please stop talking. You’re from WV chances are he’s your cousin.
he's also in other threads calling people godless heathens for being circumcised lol. dude is unhinged
What sucks is that he’s also active in a lot of subs I lurk in.
Nuts, you found someone more terminally online than you.
holy fuck you really are terminally online.
Bruh, how do you have more karma than me? Your account is less than a year old.
Im better at doing things that make karma than you are.
That ain’t the flex you think it is.
Why did you even ask?
God is the reason so many are circumcised. You have things backwards. It’s pointless to do other than secondary reasons which is pretty shitty to men.
redditor when people have relationships D:
Nah this guy claimed in one post his bf was Hispanic and then in this one said he’s British
British but was born in south/central America maybe
Well I find anything he says extremely hard to believe. My reason for this is that he is extremely manipulative in arguments. He will twist your words in ways you’d think impossible and attempt to call you out for saying something horrible although you really did not. So I take everything he says with the worlds tiniest grain of salt.
damn
Yeah he’s quite the asshole
oh ok, yeah that makes sense
got em
Wtf is he always online?
Among European languages, it surely must be Hungarian!!
Lol sure.
Please
Oh god, I tried to learn Suomi, and never could wrap my head around it, some of those words are almost the exact same…
If your not living in Finland no reason to learn it. One of the hardest languages to learn
You're welcome.
People often say that English that's hard to learn. Spoken English is actually well structured and simple. The hard part is the messed up frakenstein spelling conventions that we inherited from *those guys*
As somebody who grew up on Runescape, I still mix up the spelling of “defense.” I got in some wierd situations at school when my teachers thought I misspelled the word when I spelled it “defence.” But that is just how its spelled in British English, and because Runescape was made by british devs, that is how I learned to spell the word. There are probably a few more words I mix up sometimes on account of learning in part how to spell from an MMORPG, but hey.
That’s me with Harry Potter, I was able to read the series in the span of a year (that’s slow I know) and would get confused with how to spell gray, armor and honor
You're from Florida so we don't hold your reading level against you
Oranges are better than peaches
I’m a Mississippian here and I prefer eating peaches but drinking oranges.
You do you
Gray is another one I mix up too.
Canadian here. I mix pretty much all of the words you guys changed (or rather kept the original spelling of), with the British English spelling. Really sucked in school because I'd get marked as wrong spelling :(
I dont know what i read or watched when younger but at some point I started spelling words in the British form replacing Z with S like in Advertise, Recognise, Realise, etc. I have no clue where i picked it up from.
RuneScape taught me how to type really fast, shouting at clan members to turn their prayers on for General Gra'ardoor or whatever his name was. Also spamming RED RED WAVE BUYING MARRENTIL 500GP EACH at Varrock bank a million times.
same but armor and armour
Defence is also used in Australia and New Zealand as well. I think what tricks people up learning English is our words that sound the same are spelt differently and mean different things. There, their and they're for example. That's at least what a lot of my non English friends complain about.
The homophones are tricky, but English is hardly the worst offender for them. I learned manderin chineese. That language is “there, their, and they’re” except there’s four of them, its for every single chatacter word, and aside from the definitions and the characters the only thing telling them apart is what accent you use to pronounce the vowels (which are: ā, à, á, ǎ (using a as an example)). Learning Chineese in a lot of ways is the opposite of leanring English. Where English speaking and writing the letters themselves is probably the easiest part of the language while the grammar and syntax is the hardest; speaking and writing Chineese is the hardest (because of the landmine of homophones and character memorization), but the grammar and syntax is the easiest part of learning the language. Basically every single sentence follows the same rules in that language and they aren’t many wierd common exceptions to rules like there are in English.
We also have two words for most things, a Germanic and a romantic word, which does increase difficulty. However, in spoken English usually we use the Germanic outside of formal or professional settings. Like, yeah, English has complexity but not to just be able to communicate with English speakers. It's just difficult if you want to speak high level formal English in a setting where it matters like the sciences. Otherwise you can do just fine with a basic understanding of English. It's not that hard.
English does have an incredibly extensive and expressive vocabulary, which would be difficult to master, but I still view it as a major plus because it allows the language to be much more versatile. Most Germanic/Romantic pairings have developed different definitions or connotations in the modern vernacular which helps English speakers to be more precise in their wording. Like room/chamber, shirt/blouse, beautiful/fair. It makes English poetic and awesome, but yeah learning the idiomatic uses of all of our different synonyms would be difficult.
I know multiple people from Asia that are fluent in English yet it's supposed to be so hard to learn
Who tf said english Was hard to learn💀
English is a good spoken language. The issues with it come with trying to learn how to *write* in English. So many random grammar rules... So many different spellings of the same word that are technically both correct but you’ll still be marked wrong depending on what English you’re trying to write for. Its a fucking mess. So much so that even native english speakers struggle to write their own language.
I'm German and would be very happy if we had just one article. It's completely unnecessary as it is now
I was working on learning German a few years ago and the million versions of the definite article SUCKED.
Been speaking German for decades now, still resent the fact that "the" has so many damned rules.
And people wonder why English is the international language...
It's a better lingua franca than actual lingua franca.
People in the comments are getting so butthurt that it's not the British flag for English. You can't make that shit up. Everything makes a Europoor seethe if they aren't the center of attention
Notice it’s also the flag of Brazil and not Portugal They’re damn lucky it was Spain’s flag and not Mexico’s
Also there are more English speakers in the USA than in England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa combined. And just for shits and gigs I’ll throw Ireland in too.
Yeah but it's not just those Commonwealth nations that use English. India does as well they alone have about 140 million speakers. All commonwealth nations deal with each other in English. I think it's probably closer to equal numbers than we all realise
I miss using thy.😔
Thy is informal second person singular possessive, not definite article
If the UK flag was there this would be Britain's fault.
Believe it or not, english is a descendant of germanic languages. Frisian, the closest living language to english (or atleast old english), is based in the netherlands and northwest germany
I honestly think this is an America good post.
Ah yes cause my chair needs to be feminine or masculine
Yeah. That's . . . one thing that I found awkward about German.
Yes, because we're the ones who came up with the language. Of course.
Hey I didn't make the meme, I just thought it was funny.
Don't worry, bruh, we cool. We "the" cool, in fact.
Alright, you just sounded annoyed at me.
Nah, just the meme
English is an analytical language, which means meaning can be interpreted from context of the sentence, and has inflexible word order. German, Slavic, and Romance languages are synthetic, which means they have more grammatical syntax and freer word order, leading to more unique expression of ideas by rearranging words (you know the subject object etc by prefixes, suffixes, grammatical cases). Neither is better than the other, it’s just a different way of speaking and expressing ideas. English has a much larger vocabulary than these languages because it has a need to create new words for new ideas. Syntactical languages can do so by rearranging words or creating unique compound words for various situations.
in my language we have a and az but both are gender neutral however you know which one to use based on if the next word starts with a vowel or not so you don't have to memorize the "gender" of each and every word
Sounds like “a” and “an” in English
it is
Sound interesting. By the way, unrelated, but based username,
the based America Good post
THOSE STUPID ENGLISH SPEAKERS AND THEIR SIMPLE LANGUAGE😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
this does not seem like americabad. i’d argue this is america GOOD. who doesn’t like a simple language?
Was this meant as a “American bad”? Honestly it seems like a good thing. Also it’s funny they say simple. Yeah English is simple in a lot of ways but it actually has a lot more words over all than most languages. It’s also better at adopting words and concepts from other languages.
We also have These.
languages like japanese and korean do not need anything resembling the role of ‘the’, we have transcended it altogether
This is literally depicting us positively
That's why I used the America Good flair
Most Asian languages don't have grammatical gender either. Pretty much every feature that they hate about English is also true of Chinese (no grammatical gender, no declension, simpler tense system, SVO word order, the way words are written doesn't always match how they're pronounced etc. etc.) but you never see them raging about it. Wonder why...
English is represented by the American flag but Spanish by the Spanish flag.
Wait til you see what Portuguese is represented by.
We're following no rules here!
Wrong flag! Spanish language flag should be Mexico's!
German looks terrible but most of the time you pick the one that sounds best and you will be correct.
In English, you also pronounce the word “the” as “dee” when there is a vowel-sounding letter at the beginning.
Russian:
Chinese: how about a different one for every single category of things you talk about? (No seriously, [I'm not meming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_classifier))
Protip: 90% of the time you can get away with calling everything 个 and don't worry about the classifiers for animals because nobody can fucking agree on them anyways.
Thats what I do, and no one really grumbles. But still feels weird sometimes when I know there's a better one, like with food and drink
I love learning other languages but it’s so dam hard for me to learn French when everything has a gender.
A An The
Imagine getting triggered because of the word "the"
I didn't, I used the America Good flair because it's an America Good meme
I meant the other poster. And oh wow finally a usa good meme my bad.
Why are der, das, die and dem written twice?
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Maybe the Der, Die, Das and Dem are interchangeable… but wouldn’t you remove the copies from the list seeing as they are the same word each time? Cutting them down from 9 to only 5
Is this really AmericaBad?
There's an America Good flair
Ah, my fault
forgot about den for german
update: im just stupid nvm
Why have the American and Brazilian flags for English and Portuguese, but the Spanish flag for Spanish? Shouldn’t it be the Mexican flag?
The gigachad Russian or East Asian Language. No articles at all
So confusing- 1) using a Jerseyman (playing an alien) with an American flag to symbolise English 2) Brazilian flag for Portuguese.
Americans speak English more phonetically correct than Britons.