> English is a pretty dumb language… I am native Hindi speaker Pretty much every one of your criticisms is true for every human language. Calling any of them “

> English is a pretty dumb language… I am native Hindi speaker Pretty much every one of your criticisms is true for every human language. Calling any of them “dumb” is more a reflection of yourself than of the language. Eg Hindi has grammatical gender, which could be pretty wtf to say, Bengali speakers, or speakers of Hungarian, but that doesn’t make Hindi “dumb”. > better languages out there which not only have less complex and confusing rules but are much more expressive and scientific “Scientific” … sigh. Human languages are not scientific. All of them have quirks. All. You want a “scientific” (ish) language, learn Lojban. Then you can speak with other Lojban speakers. English isn’t “special” by any means, and history and politics — and also the history of technological progress — have played a role in what it is today. Arguably many other languages could have played this role: French, Mandarin, anything. But what matters is that people can, and do learn it as a second language enough to make it useful as a de-facto link language. If you’re actually interested in learning why English is the way it is, I recommend the “History of English” podcast. It starts with PIE so you may even learn something about Sanskrit and Hindi along the way.