When people go off about how English is the worst language, I just wanna point out a few things:
– Our future tense requires only one word (looking at you, Spanish)
– Words donât change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese)
– We donât live in some bizarre Beauty And The Beast world where we give inanimate objects genders (romance languages, German)
– Likewise, we donât have have two different words for âtheyâ because we donât care whether âtheyâ were male or female (Spanish, French)
– Thereâs no formal âyouâ because we donât play mind games about whether or not we respect you (Spanish, German)
– We donât alter the whole fucking language based on how much we respect you (Japanese)
– The letters and sounds might not be consistent, but at least we have letters, not just pictures (Mandarin)
– We donât have a fucking stupid tense specifically for talking to two people because some idiot decided that a two-person tense was necessary (Arabic)
So yeah, I think weâre doing okay as a language
Oh and some of our plurals are irregular, but at least itâs not like every goddamn plural is an entirely new word so you have to learn every word twice
At least itâs not like that, right? Right, Arabic? WHAT A DUMB IDEA THAT WOULD BE, HUH, ARABIC?
But we do kinda have the tone thing. Like record and record, resume and resume, etc
For a few words, but you can mispronounce a lot and still get away with it. Iâm referring to this: