Malgas

I saw something recently that made the argument that English has structures that act like kanji as well. The same is true for Spanish.

Consider the glyph 1. By itself you’d read it ‘one’, but then what about 1st, where it is read ‘fir-’? And then 10 and 11 don’t match either of those, or each other.

Personal pronouns and verb conjugations based on formality

Hoo boy, if you want to talk about vocabulary and grammar changes based on formality, that’s like Japanese’s whole thing.

One thing nobody’s mentioned in this thread is counters, which are little helper words attached to numbers. Which one you should use depends on what is being counted, the categories are highly idiosyncratic and generally have nothing to do with their ordinary use (e.g. 本, which elsewhere means “book” is the counter for long thin objects like pens or bananas), and there are dozens of them.