>Silent letters? Multiple pronunciations of the same written word? Why do you do that in English, we DON'T do that in MY irrelevant language>NO this is DEFINITELY NOT just cope for me being too low IQ to learn the nuances of the world's single most advanced language
>Advanced language = having a ton bunch of exceptionsYou're retarded lol
>that table over there? that is a woman.>that cup you are holding? that is a man.kek why are they like this?
>>217540564The funny thing is we learned how to do silent letters and multiple pronunciations from indigenous people of the Americans. Yet we act like our language is so white and genius.
>The funny thing is we learned how to do silent letters and multiple pronunciations from indigenous people of the Americans
>>217540656Awww does it hurt your little white fee fees that Europeans learned and adopted to fit native modes of knowledge production?
>>217540703English didn't get it from there, niggerbrain. Your pecker will never heal btw.
>>217540929I'm not cut. In my state only 10% of people are cut. Not every American is from New England genius.And yes it did. Europeans stole a lot of knowledge from natives. Even natives taught finns how to write their language in Deleware.
>>217540621The table can be both female or male while the cup is obviously female, you chud
Everyone should just speak English. Simple as.
>>217540564Dumbass we got the silent e from natives. It's not a European thing.
>>217541026>I'm not cut. In my state only 10% of people are cutfun way of saying "i'm a chicano faggot"
>>217540612>having a ton bunchYou're retarded lol
>>217541107"Ei"
>>217541514No... I live in Oregon dumbass. Cutting is an east coast and mid west thing
>>217541543Bodied that Down syndrome kid
>>217540564I mean we all know this "advanced" language just fine but English speakers don't know our simple languages. Hmm
>>217540564>English is the single most advanced language
>>217540564Euro English should be the global standard for the English languageless exceptions, less weird stuff, simplified pronunciation: the perfect language for easy, quick communication worldwidethen there's French or Italian or German for the more serious stuff
>>217541704Tis THO.
>"most advanced language">doesn't even have separate words for you(singular) and you(plural)
>>217542769you and yousepretty easy
>>217540612>brown "swedish" hands wrote this post
>>217540621Seriously though why are they like this? Why does a language needs gendered inanimate objects for it to "work"? It makes no sense. A table is not female or male it's a fucking table. I'm imaging hundreds of years ago when these languages were developing someone looked at like a candle and said to themselves "ah yes that looks like a female" ????????? Schizophrenic shit.
>>217542769y'all
>bastarized french is the most advanced languagei guess
>>217543116so you agree english is an extremely simplified mutt indo-european language? not the flex you think it isslavs don't even have articles but i suppose that's "totally different". monolinguals having an opinion about other languages is always funny
>>217544303i can see why they're so reluctan to speak english when it's badly pronounced french most of the timebit like me speaking afrikaans
>>217540564I fucking love silent letters, Finnish has many of them and they are cool
I'm dyslexic and I HATE English spelling
>>217544323>slavs don't even have articlesNeither does Latin. Articles are a cope for not having cases. German and Romanian are weird edge cases.
>>217540564>>Silent letters?one of my fav pseud concepts, because you have to think a letter is pronounced in order to even arrive at such a retarde conclusion
>>217540564fuck off mr o'faggoty descendant of An faggot mòr, strealer of corn. We are the only ones permitted to complain about Europe from the sidelines.
>>217543116>A table is not female or male it's a fucking table.exactly, and this is why you fail to undestand the conceptgenders are morphological categories and have nothing to do with biological sexthere are languages with a figurative million of themwhy don't you understand that it's about words and their grammatical agreements and not objects?>I'm imaging hundreds of years ago when these languages were developing someone looked at like a candle and said to themselves "ah yes that looks like a female"I'm throwing peals before swine here, but genders came about in pre-history in Indo-European languages. During Proto-Indo-European, two genders emerged, which described animacy, and were the precursors to modern masculine and neuter in IE langs. Eventually, during late PIE, speakers found a need to further mark the animate gender, and this gave way to what is today known as feminine in IE langs.Roman grammarians used the terminology masc, fem, and neuter allegorically since living beings are animate with a dichotomy (two sexes). That's it. It's a way to describe a dichotomy, like night and day, black and white, etc.Mongolian grammar uses this nomenclature for the vowels, where the language has masculine and feminine vowels, to describe how its vowel harmony works, even though we'd normally speak of vowel height, roundedness, openness, etc in modern phonology.
>>217545328Learn Gaelic! we have NO spelling difficulties, its all straightforward!For examplesuidheachadhmeans settlingspronounced see uh xadh (x as in the ch in loch or how scousers say the ck in chicken)but thats onky scots gaelic as they use the middle-old irish spelling, irish gaelic is very standard in reality, even if it looks weird.
>>217540564>the world's single most advanced languageWhat does Chinese have to do with anything here?
>>217540621cup is female you uncultured swine
>>217548504it's masculine, thoughever
>>217540612>Import words and grammar from entire world so my language is intelligible for them>They still complainNo...
>>217547062So why can't you let go of that useless obsolete shit? You seethe over us using the English system of measurement still using caveman brain male and female tables and acting proud of it.
>>217540564
>>217542769historically you was plural and thou singular, but barely any dialects still do thatsome places use 'youse,' my great grandpa would even, but I don't hear it often
>>217549620Unironically if you can't get through one verse without a mistake it's over for you, ESLie condemned for life.
>>217540564Kneel to Chang and Pancho, Timmy-cel
>>217549844vocaroo it then m8
>>217549599here's your (You), anon
>>217549844save for proper nouns you can't reasonably expect everyone to know, there's nothing difficult about that one
>>217541096>inanimate objects are generefluido, because... well, because they just ARE, capiche?!
>>217550018you know how you have to use a nasal before a vowel when using articles?a dogan applewell, what's with this redundant shit? you don't need this for your language to worksame retarded argument
>>217540564>the world's single most advanced languageComplete nonsense from a linguistic perspective. In any case, orthography is not language, but the vast majority of languages on Earth (of those that are written at all) conventionally use orthographies with a much closer relation to pronunciation than English's.
>>217540621It serves for disambiguation and error correction. Natural language contains redundant bits because otherwise it would be unintelligible under conditions of less than perfect audibility.
>>217542769Standard written English doesn't, most spoken dialects of English do.
>>217551370I say Yous
>>217545424There are languages that work fine with neither, like Mandarin.>>217547062>genders are morphological categories and have nothing to do with biological sexThis is not entirely accurate. In Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic languages their default/"elsewhere" behavior is to track to sex when talking about humans. In Spanish, if you want to say "I'm tired", as an isolated sentence with nothing for the adjective to agree with, you'll say "Estoy cansado" if you're a man and "Estoy cansada" if you're a woman. If a woman said "Estoy cansado" she would be producing a sentence with the false-to-fact implicature that she is a man.
>>217548332Chinese? Oh, that's one of my favorite languages, up there with Romance. I find the French dialect of Romance particularly nice.
>>217549844Most native English speakers can't read the whole thing correctly.
>>217551391I normally say "you guys"
>>217541096il tavolo e la tavola sono due diverse cose
>>217540564English is the best language. Anyone in Ontario has heard native French speakers talking to each other in French, then both switching to English when something is too hard to express in a more primative language like French. They all do it.
>>217542769Usecase?
it's funny how everyone on here considers themselves fluent in english but have unintelligible pronunciation
>>217540621>>217543116You're correct. Do gendered pronouns, an equally useless construction next
>>217540564the fact that you can't stick to rules says a lot about your society
>>217542769bodied those anglos
>>217545424>Articles are a cope for not having casesAncient Greek entering the roomto agathon has to be rendered as quod bonum est in latin for its lack of articles>>217552422good point, gendered pronouns only make sense when you have gendered nouns to go with them for establishing more precise referencesEnglish is the defective language in this question
english spelling is pretty retarded though.not even natives are good at it (look at declining literacy rates)
>english>languagepick one
>>217540564my language does all this actually. unlike french, german etc. there was never any standardization of the norwegian language.
>>217540564Strayans used to be quality shitposters, what the shit is this garbage?
>>217540564>anglų kalba>labiausiai pažangi/sudėtinga pasaulyjeKažkaip net stebina, kad temą ne amerikonas sukūrė. O gal tiesiog su VPN'u ar panašiai?
>>217540564>the world's single most advanced language>uuuhhhh ACKshually Norwich is pronounced... NORICH!!!! GREENICH!!! TOASTER!!!!!!! SAGE!!!!!!
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>>217540564Isn't English unique in the sense that it has shitloads upon shitloads of synonym words with minute differences? And that you can just invent new words whenever you want by putting two words together?
*starts twerking*
>>217557393English (which is a language)
>>217560100English has the largest vocabulary of any language. It is the most expressive language by a mile.
>>217548504>he doesn't know
>>217560100>And that you can just invent new words whenever you want by putting two words together?this is how many languages work.whenever some reddit pseud gushes about "akshually the germans have a word for that", what they really mean is the germans have 2 or 3 words they just removed the space between and called it a new word
>>217550204Well you may be talking about *a* dog, but what about *the* dog? Or *that* dog over there? It's useful for specifying things.Having said that, giving inanimate objects a gender does give them more personality, which I think is a net positive rather than a negative. Tables are bros
>>217540564>advancedhow is it advanced
The Norman invasion and its consequences have been a disaster for the English language.
