Something like 80% of the world population uses ungendered language. Gender and tense questions make a lot of things really complicated! There are only two ten

Something like 80% of the world population uses ungendered language. Gender and tense questions make a lot of things really complicated! There are only two tenses in english, really. Compare to Spanish/French conjugations, or German declination questions. (Because this is HN) in a way, English ends up being very LISP-y (more CL than Scheme though). There are very few base constructs, and some special vocabulary, but most "grammar" is really just vocabulary. Future tense isn't a tense, it's using 'will'. There's hardness because of all the dialects, and particles. Though I don't really know of a language where particle use isn't of a similar difficulty.