As an Italian native speaker I wholeheartedly agree. It's one of the reasons I love English more. Not only does English have many more homophones, and nouns ca

As an Italian native speaker I wholeheartedly agree. It's one of the reasons I love English more. Not only does English have many more homophones, and nouns can be used as verbs and vice versa, but English also has a much higher “word density” (for lack of a better term). The vocabulary is larger, and words tend to be shorter. The combination of the two means that you can take any short word, and odds are many other words with completely different meanings are just one letter-change away. On top of that, pronunciation is very inexact, which means many vowels and consonants sound alike. These things make English pretty bad for oral comprehension, but great for puns.