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You should be able to solve this
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>>25320127
is
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>>25320127
We should be able to solve the shit moderation on this board, so off topic threads like this don't shit up the place
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>>25320139
English is such a retarded non-language.
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>>25320142
>Says in english
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10cm
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>>25320143
Aғылшын тiлi өтe apттa қaлғaн тiл eмec.
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>>25320142
Brown opinion
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>>25320139
Why tho?
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>>25320143
English is shit through and through for an infinity of reasons. An embarrassment of a language. A patchwork of mechanics that don't function together trying to enrich a basal blueprint of an already shit idiom.

You'd take the natural born english speaker for a mouth breather when they speak of "big words" as if they are inscrutable in and of themselves just for being "big" or more elaborate versions of everyday terms. But they're not. The more categorical and technical terms in english are straight up different from the basic terms used around that topic since they are often latinates, in english's chase against its horrid germanic origins to become a decent honest language like the infinitely more aesthetic romance languages. That's where you get the germanic everyday "lung" and the latin "pulmonary", you get "skin" and "dermal", "smell" and "olfactory". These are simple enough when you know them from common use, but there is the added barrier of latinates not working well with english phonemes. You hear them and you aren't sure how to spell them, you read them and you're not sure how to say them. Other languages don't have these problems. You always know the more elaborate word from the simple ones, you always know how to spell a word you hear.

English also has extremely simplistic verbal conjugations compared to literally EVERY language that exists except maybe for japanese. It has a past form for most verbs and that's that. In Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, many slavic languages, every specific combination of pronoun + verb + time makes for a different conjugation of that particular verb. A reality so arcane that it would make the english-speaking brain explode.

You people speak a disgusting, nasally, frankenstein's monster abomination of a germanic abortion that tries to cling to latin to cover itself in its malformed childlike simplicity, as if a fetus that came out too early and tries to use the body parts of corpses as a parasitic flesh-suit. It's best spoken by inbreds with no chins and homosexual tendencies such as this: >>25320158
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>>25320172
TL;DR lol
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>>25320172
new pasta just dropped
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>>25320172
Not reading all that. If you’re so against the use of English stop sullying your dirty tongue with my language. In fact I'm gonna make sure every post you make is in your native language and when you don't adhere to the rule I'm hoping the jannies will take care of you.
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>>25320176
english is gay and retarded

>>25320189
>S-s-stop being mean to my language!
For you to understand how shit your language is you'd need to first understand another language, one not created by five year olds, and for that you'd need to NOT be the product of brother-sister incest.
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>>25320172
You lost me at Japanese verb conjugations being simple.
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I wish I were a little bit taller, I wish I were a baller.
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>>25320263
fuck was just about to post this
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>>25320172
Brown.
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>>25320266
Ball-mind.
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>>25320269
Actually Harvard, thank you very much.
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>>25320266
You can still have the rabbit in a hat with a bat.
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>>25320197
No I actually fucking don't. Enjoy your ban.
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>>25320172
>English also has extremely simplistic verbal conjugations compared to literally EVERY language that exists except maybe for japanese.
This is English's greatest strength, not a weakness.
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>>25320127
all of them be valid expressions in today's english
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>>25320172
Nonsense, we have present, past, continuous, and perfect. And we pack all that other arcanum into various use to "be" and "have" etc., or "is."
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>>25320127
A little bit taller
I wish I was a ______
I wish I had a ______ in a ______ with a ____
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>>25320132
fpbp
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>>25320457
Anon almost literally every other western language has that as well, it's the baseline for anything
What I will say is that english has the highest amount of words out of any language in the world though
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>>25320163
Hypothetical, subjunctive mood
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English a Germanic bastard raised by adoptive Latins, with a linguistic inferiority complex that led it to dress in a toga.
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>>25320172
The reason English is incredible is that you can be wrong more and communicate more than almost any other language. Speaking a language poorly and communicating a shitload of data is an awesome feature.

Meanwhile, the Chinese can't understand what you're saying if you don't already think like them.
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I love that English has many roots and influences, it makes it a much more interesting language
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What language is kino enough to learn?
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>>25320505
English
>But I already know it
OK, say every word
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>>25320494
>it makes it a much more interesting language
Pirate language indeed
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>>25320513
Dios mio, el pirata del ingles....
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>>25320511
Every Word.

*slam dunks in your face triumphantly*
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>>25320172
>Says in english
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>>25320519
kek bodied that freak
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>>25320563
lmao
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>>25320505
Italian and French

We're evaluating this question by who made the best kino, correct?
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"was a little bit"
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>>25320142
In fairness, this tense is at least a consistent exception.
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"I wish I could be taller"
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>>25320442
>"N-n-no u!"
>"MODS!"
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>>25320172
>>25320278
Based. Too intelligent for the barbaric whites.
>>25320505
Sanskrit.
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>>25320505
German, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit.
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What's with people acting like English is the only analytic language in the world?
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>>25320172

It's hilarious how badly English lends itself to poetry.
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>>25320623
I'm gonna shove my penis into your rectum. Then we'll see who's boss.
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>>25320147
*bombs you*
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>>25320127
My height in this image
t. cis male
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well in the ancient hymns it reads "i wish i was a lil bit taller, i wish i was a baller"



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