English is a stupid language.
This thread is a stupid thread
>>25333260It's a very arbitrary language. Pray tell me why "flood" and "good" have completely different pronunciations.
>>25333260Um: methinks thou’rt forgetting a few Countryes.
>>25333260Those islands above Australia look like a turtle :D
>>25333266>it's a very arbitrary languageAll languages are arbitrary you fucking retard
>>25333273Read Cratylus, you Saussurean clow.
>>25333260And yet here you are speaking it. Interesting.
I resent having to use this monkey tongue to post here. It makes me feel unclean.
There are no stupid languages, only stupid speakers.*looks at the map in the OP*Point taken.
>>25333273Can you tell me something arbitrary about spanish or japanese?
Really wish we could ban all these bitter, diaspora dumbfucks that keep showing up.
>>25333426>spanishGrammatical gender>japaneseHonorifics. Please don't say something retarded like>no no no cause like gender is real across human societies and people are honored across human societies so it's not arbitrary because that would be a retarded thing to say
>>25333260It's not a language.It is three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat, waiting in a back-ally for its next victim to mug.Terribly diverse and wonderful in a way.
>>25333266Orthographic transparency (one-to-one equivalence phoneme-grapheme) is for niggers. I mean it quite unironically. English and French are the languages the most deviant from it and are the fine languages, along with Chinese doing good. German and Russian not too far behind. Italian is the only non-unga bunga language that maintains an approximate orthographic transparency, which is the domain of Serbo-Croat, black African languages or meme like Esperanto.
>>25333266>Pray tell
>>25333266that's not the language you idiot
>>25333664>Orthographic transparency (one-to-one equivalence phoneme-grapheme)Does this mean that words that look like they sound a particular way (i.e., flood being pronounced with /ŏ/) really do sound that way? If so, then is Polish a nigger language?
>>25333266They don't have completely different pronunciations, ESL
>>25333557We Latines don't use gendered language in this house, mi'je.
>>25333260I actually kind of like it.>>25333585It's actually two and a bit.
>>25333706English, french, and a bit of latin. If you say german or greek you're a linguistic retard everything hinges on your response
>>25333685It means that there is a one-to-one correspondance between a phoneme (a typical sound, as found in the international phonetic alphabet) and a series of characters with no way of being ambiguous about their interpretation (even if it isn't a single character). Languages with high transparency are those that received their first standardised spelling in the 19th century or even 20th century (from colonial authorities) because a very few linguists of the age of nationalism decided things would be written this way which appeared cleaner and "scientific" according to linguistic theories of the time (as opposed to organic language building over millennia). For your second question, yes this is the case of Polish. Imagine if Chinese, French or English had somehow been non-literary language before 1850. Some government mandated idiot tasked with deciding how to write things would have likely made the spelling equivalent to pronunciation of the time.
>>25333686>Wind>Bindexplain that
>>25333724Pronounced the same
>>25333712Well, I agree the "bit" referes to all the post roman aspects that mostly come as loanwords rather than core words. Latin being prime amoung them then a sprinkling of greek, dutch, german for jargon, then decreasing from there.
>>25333732>post romanmeant to say post NormanI got my "man"s mixed up.
>>25333732I'll accept it
>>25333260leave us out of it
>>25333260If we're not going with English as a global languageI suggest a return to Latin
>>25333804you are the 'i'm not like other girls' of amerisharts
>>25333724Literal pajeet posting
If English is your first language then you should be placed in a labor camp.
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYoqCDKoT4
I don't understand the premise. There's not really a more intelligent living language currently. It's the language of technology and one of the most important for math. Entirely prohibiting South Asians from speaking it would solve almost any problem of English.
>>25333260it's the most versatile germanic language in a world that demands german efficency and economy plus all the romance elements to woo the girls with your dazzling vocabulary. It is a necessity, you can cope and seethe all night
>>25333260English is what happens when you steal pieces of other languages and then get pissy when people won't speak it back to you. English doesn't even borrow words, it sneaks into other languages houses at night and sniffs dirty underwear for grammar residue.
>>25334391But enough about your sexual fantasies
>>25334124You don't have the strength because your country is third world and you lack proper nutrition.
>>25333260Brown comment>>25333585Reddit comment>>25333664Correct comment
>>25333260It could be worse. We could all be speaking sentence fragments, cutting words in half to abbreviate them but mispronouncing the abbreviation so it doesn't save any time, and writing with a non-phonetic alphabet like Japan does.
>>25333260You forgot India
>>25333260>Not including Belize.
>>25333557>gendered language Is it really arbitrary if it's always the same? English speakers have a hard time when pronouncing the name of characters they have never heard, so pronunciation is completely arbitrary. But in spanish gender in words is always the same. There are some very very weird words which gender doesn't make much sense but I can count them with the fingers of one hand. >Honorifics That's literally up to the person, isn't it? I thought it was simply like adding "Sir" at the end of your sentence.
>>25333697Is the sun masculine or feminine? Please confer with a German and get back to me. Remember to take miss chair and sit around mr table and write your messeurs findings on madamoiselle paper.
>Be that as it mayKino
>>25334733>writing with a non-phonetic alphabetThe English alphabet isn't phonetic. For every kanji with 8 readings, there's a combination of letters with the same.Ye naive Colonel Worcestershire caught a ghoti.
>>25333266>pray tell meXD
>>25333724There's no way. . . .
>>25334796If you have a hard time with new words in English, you area retard and didn't learn the rules.
>>25335797??? You can't even read a sentence in english, dude. I was talking about how native english speakers do not know how to pronounce a word if they have never heard of it before. How old are you? You cannot be older than 18 and have not come across this on the internet. Here's an example: I remember that when I was reading Homestuck when I was like 13 years old, people online could not come to a consensus on how to pronounce names like Aradia Megido or Terezi Pyrope.
>>25333809We almost had an easy global language for people to learn before the French blocked it
Third worldies be like "English is a stupid language. Everyone should speak my language, which has 5 cases, 4 genders, and 3 aspects, all of which add no aesthetic value to our dogshit language which has 3 writers of note."
