Bill 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 w

Bill 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.