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I like English. It gets a bad wrap because of all of the exceptions and corner cases, however it's extremely expressive and easily lends itself to many differe
by Patrick_Devine 13y ago
I like English. It gets a bad wrap because of all of the exceptions and corner cases, however it's extremely expressive and easily lends itself to many different oratory and literary styles.
It's easier in many respects to romance languages because when conjugating verbs you don't have to also conjugate possessive personal pronouns which you do with most other languages of European origin. And yet, in my opinion, it is more expressive than languages such as Chinese which don't have proper pronouns at all. Because of its rich vocabulary, it is also very easy to express ideas that may be difficult to express in other languages.
Oh, and Python is rather nice too.
- qznc 13y agoI like English too, especially for dramatic uses from Shakespeare over Hollywood to furious rants by programmers. However, my mother tongue is german, which is nicer, if you talk about technical stuff, because you can compose nouns so nicely. On the downside, we cannot convert nouns into verbs so easily (e.g. to google).
- thomasfoster96 13y agoPicking out the flaws!
- auganov 13y agoAnd the "library" ecosystem. Most science, technology and other things of worldwide significance are conducted in English. Reading that stuff in other languages feels like using a crappy wrapper library.