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English regularly violates its own rules and additionally has no correcting body (Swedish has central body that dictates language rules for example). That's pa
by dijit 1y ago
English regularly violates its own rules and additionally has no correcting body (Swedish has central body that dictates language rules for example).
That's part of why it's so difficult to fully master, and there are rules (sentence structure) for clarity, but there's no actually solid rules for pronunciation (it differs depending on word) or even what words are really proper words (there are central dictionaries that largely agree, but there are also "Hinglish", patois and the other creole dialects).
English steals aggressively from other languages, since that's its history. Other languages might borrow some words but there's multiple branches of these inside english. You can use English with only latin-root words, or English with only Germanic-root words and both are as valid english as each other.
Easy to learn; awful to master.
- demetrius 1y ago> English regularly violates its own rules That's true for any human language. E.g. in Russian, adjectives use the gender, case and plurality of a noun, until they suddenly don't. > English steals aggressively from other languages, since that's its history. That's not unique to English. E.g. Japanese has even borrowed numerals, and some of its pronouns are borrowings. Russian has borrowed verb forms. Having a lot of Latin borrowings is quite common in most European languages. Even in Romance languages, there are a lot of Latin borrowings (e.g. minuto is Latin borrowing, miúdo is a native Portuguese word). > You can use English with only latin-root words, or English with only Germanic-root words and both are as valid english as each other. That's similar to how e.g. Romanian has Latin-based and Slavic-based vocabulary. This is not that unique. > but there are also "Hinglish", patois and the other creole dialects Many languages have or had patois and creoles based on them.