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I don't hate English. In fact they got a whole lot right after they branched off. Just removing some of the stupidity from Scandinavian, German, French and othe

by eitland 14y ago

I don't hate English. In fact they got a whole lot right after they branched off. Just removing some of the stupidity from Scandinavian, German, French and other words makes a whole lot of difference (Seriously: Genders for words, who came up with that? ; ) The spelling otoh: Yes, that one is broken.

ableal 14y ago
> (Seriously: Genders for words, who came up with that? ; ) It's for entertainment purposes. Provides harmless amusement to native speakers of languages that have it, especially when English (or Chinese, or whatever underfeatured language) speakers fumble the genders of tables, forks, cars, etc. More fun than a barrel of monkeys. Also good for poets, makes their work more difficult, thus rarer and better smelling when burnt.