• riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    32·
    11 months ago

    writes fully understandable comment

    some fucking smartass cunt, the absolute bane of my existence, the most annoying creature in this universe: “please use propper spelling and punctuation🤓🤓”

    words can not express the hate i feel for this kind of person

  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    That’s so funny 😂😂

    I can totally understand. Everything about English is difficult.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      Hungarian ia the superior language, everything is pronounced how it’s written, no genders, date format is close to iso 8601 wxcept with dots instead of -, you literally just add stuff to the word to change its meaning.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Also:

        • No guesswork about where to place the emphasis because it’s always the first syllable (glaring at Slavic languages)
        • No guesswork about pronunciation beause every letter has exactly one (glaring intensely at Russian)
        • No guesswork about how to construct diacriticised glyphs or diphthongs because everything is defined in the alphabet

        In general, Uralic languages are always superior to Germanics, and only lose against Nordics because of the cool factor.

        • uis@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago
          • No guesswork about pronunciation beause every letter has exactly one (glaring intensely at Russian)

          Multiple pronunciations means you can choose any of those options and be correct.

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          11 months ago

          The first two are also applicable to English. I still don’t understand half of English poetry because my native-french-speaking ass doesn’t even have an intuitive concept of syllabic stress, and English pronunciation is so beyond fucked it’s not funny. “It’s pronounced read and not read” “-ough like tough not dough” how about STFU.

          • kattenluik@feddit.nl
            0·
            11 months ago

            I swear every single time someone mentions language or doesn’t explicitly say where they’re from someone will fight you saying that you only know one language and one culture and you can’t possibly know anything else lol

            • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              The problem is that speaking different languages is not even remotely the same thing as knowing anything about linguistics. People have no idea of how little they actually know about the use of language.

              • kattenluik@feddit.nl
                1·
                11 months ago

                I’m honestly not sure about how people would go about learning a language without getting so involved that you inevitably catch all of that, I’ve never thought about it.

      • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Languages are “easier” or more “difficult” based on how similar they are to your native language. There isn’t some objective measure of difficulty across languages.

      • Kühe sind toll@feddit.de
        0·
        11 months ago

        I don’t think that English is that hard. It has very easy grammar, you don’t have to mess with genders and it has a straight forward sentence structure. Other languages like german, are much harder to learn.

        • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Again, the difficulty of language acquisition is determined by how similar the new language you are trying to learn is to the languages you already speak. There isn’t any kind of objective measurement of language acquisition difficulty.

          For whatever reason people are often very resistant to this fact, but just speaking several languages fluently doesn’t mean you actually know shit about linguistics, and this is a very well-established concept.

          So a native Mandarin speaker would probably find English and German equally difficult to acquire because they are both so unlike their own language.

          Fun fact about English; Old English was even more grammatically complex than modern German but it got stripped down over the years and now accomplishes through syntax much of what it used to do with grammar.

          There are also a couple of very odd qualities to English that may have come from the Celtic languages, but the idea is still pretty controversial.