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Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?
- jleyank 4y agoBill Bryson wrote about this and I find his stuff pleasant/humorous to read. I didn’t see a mention of English’s ability to interchange nouns and verbs to go with stealing from other languages. I vultured that code, etc. Are they both saying it’s easy to learn badly? And it can be understood with few words and thick accents which also helps.
- cheeselip420 4y agoEnglish is a creole language: celtic, germanic and romance languages blended up into a delicious slurry.
- kwatsonafter 4y agoI love the way you put that. My needs may be met by Wilde, wild slurry.
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- imbnwa 4y agoMany of the common words we use are actually Old Norse in origin, replacing Old Saxon terms, like 'eye', 'egg', 'birth', 'awkward', 'awe', 'ugly', 'husband', 'they', 'their', etc
- BMc2020 4y agoSo many immigrants, and also two world empires back to back spoke english. People (from England) say people go "to hospital" which is correct. Americans (immigrants) saw a big building with the word Hospital on it, so they say go "to the hospital." Multiply that experience by a million and here we are.