I've always thought that English is like the PHP* of natural languages: ubiquitous, borrows from every other language, and wildly inconsistent. *I cut my teeth

I've always thought that English is like the PHP* of natural languages: ubiquitous, borrows from every other language, and wildly inconsistent. *I cut my teeth on PHP3 and haven't used it in over a decade, and I hear it's gotten a lot better.