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English painfully simple, grammar wise? Wait until you tried constructed language like Esperanto or Ido.
by aloisdg 7y ago
English painfully simple, grammar wise? Wait until you tried constructed language like Esperanto or Ido.
- Swizec 7y agoEh the hard parts of English arise because it likes to mug languages in dark alleys and pick their pockets for spare grammar and vocabulary. This makes it difficult to form a unified theory of the language. The more elegant your rules, the more exceptions there are. But it’s also a super power. It makes the language feel more familiar to just about anyone who speaks an Indo-European language. There’s something homely and welcoming in english for anyone. And the readiness with which english adopts foreign vocabulary when practical is simply inspiring. You can introduce basically any word from any language and make it stick. And then there’s Slavic languages where at least in mine, every verb or pronoun can come in one of 20 or so different forms. Nouns have 20+ different forms too. Not expecting Slovenian to become lingua franca of anything any time soon. It’s just too hard.
- snakeboy 7y agoI can't speak from any experience outside Romance languages, but English verb conjugation is significantly simpler, along with a lack of gendering of nouns. Those two points alone go a long way.