Do you know of any language where there are not formal and informal vocabularies? I don't. The point is that in English the additional semantics do not requir

Do you know of any language where there are not formal and informal vocabularies? I don't. The point is that in English the additional semantics do not require additional syntax. To make a programming analogy, this is like the difference between C++ having overloadable operators and Java using methods to achieve the same. C++'s grammar is more complicated than Java's, because C++ uses additional syntax to achieve the same semantic ends. The dual French / Germanic roots to English vocabulary does however hint at one of its distinctively complicated features: English pronunciation and spelling is bewildering because of that lineage.