• @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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    921 hours ago

    Having a kid in first grade I’m reminded of how awful our language is. Spelling and pronunciation is seemingly random, articles everywhere, nobody knows how to use semicolons outside of programming, few know how to properly quote things, but least our words don’t have genders.

    • @[email protected]
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      419 hours ago

      My kids are in a Chinese dual immersion program. I will never complain about English’s foibles ever again. Holy shit is that a terribly inefficient language. Thousands of years of civilization and they’re still doing pictograms. I can’t even imagine writing a program in Chinese. I’m not sure it would be possible.

      • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe
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        17 hours ago

        5th grade reading level, gotta leave the term Foibles behind if you want people to hear you, apparently