• Alex@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      I don’t begrudge peoples difficulties with English. It has some positives like not needing gendered conjugation for objects and a fairly wide cultural exposure. However it freely steals words from other languages making it a bit of a mongrel. Also the spelling and pronunciation is entirely non-regular so the usual answer to people looking for rules to work these things out is “just know”.

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        2 days ago

        I don’t begrudge peoples difficulties with English

        it has nice things and bad things (is horrible constructed and very incontinuos in its pronunciation), like almost every natural language.