Interesting article, and I suggest looking into bill Bryson if this kind of stuff interests you. I’m an anglophone, but I assume many on HN are not - I thought

Interesting article, and I suggest looking into bill Bryson if this kind of stuff interests you. I’m an anglophone, but I assume many on HN are not - I thought that English was a language that was (very?) difficult to speak well but easy to learn “enough to communicate”. Is that the case? Is the lack of rigour re endings and word order helpful in sufficient clear communication? The article also doesn’t point out that English is spoken by way more people than most languages so the related language (Dutch/German) is not realized. Compare, say, Australian and West Virginian. Both are “English” but the speakers might not recognize what they’re saying. Mongrel dogs is a set of dogs, but they don’t really look or act the same.