• riwo
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    writes fully understandable comment

    some fucking smartass cunt, the absolute bane of my existence, the most annoying creature in this universe: “please use propper spelling and punctuation🤓🤓”

    words can not express the hate i feel for this kind of person

  • @[email protected]
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    351 year ago

    That’s so funny 😂😂

    I can totally understand. Everything about English is difficult.

    • @kameecoding
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      221 year ago

      Hungarian ia the superior language, everything is pronounced how it’s written, no genders, date format is close to iso 8601 wxcept with dots instead of -, you literally just add stuff to the word to change its meaning.

      • Sonotsugipaa
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        211 year ago

        date format is close to iso 8601

        Bro that’s all you had to say

      • @rtxn
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        101 year ago

        Also:

        • No guesswork about where to place the emphasis because it’s always the first syllable (glaring at Slavic languages)
        • No guesswork about pronunciation beause every letter has exactly one (glaring intensely at Russian)
        • No guesswork about how to construct diacriticised glyphs or diphthongs because everything is defined in the alphabet

        In general, Uralic languages are always superior to Germanics, and only lose against Nordics because of the cool factor.

        • @uis
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          41 year ago
          • No guesswork about pronunciation beause every letter has exactly one (glaring intensely at Russian)

          Multiple pronunciations means you can choose any of those options and be correct.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          The first two are also applicable to English. I still don’t understand half of English poetry because my native-french-speaking ass doesn’t even have an intuitive concept of syllabic stress, and English pronunciation is so beyond fucked it’s not funny. “It’s pronounced read and not read” “-ough like tough not dough” how about STFU.

      • @uis
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        61 year ago

        close to iso 8601

        Big-endian is biiig

      • @affiliate
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        21 year ago

        if you’re willing to go back several hundred years then everything in english was also written how it was pronounced. might not be worth it though

    • @CheesyFox
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      101 year ago

      lol

      from all the languages I know, english is the easiest one

      • @problematicPanther
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        101 year ago

        i dunno man, i started learning indonesian, that one is really really simple, or at least it is so far. the verb ‘is’ is pretty much always implied. plural? just say the same noun twice.

        and some of the words are awesome. For example. the word “sock” is “kaus kaki” which literally translates to ‘hand shirt’. i love it.

        • @CheesyFox
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          51 year ago

          well, I don’t know indonesian, so I can’t say anythig on the matter

      • Kühe sind toll
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        I don’t think that English is that hard. It has very easy grammar, you don’t have to mess with genders and it has a straight forward sentence structure. Other languages like german, are much harder to learn.

        • @CheesyFox
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          41 year ago

          yeah, i’m from Ukraine, and at some point our study program has tried to fit in our poor heads some A1-A2 german, so I can relate. Needless to mention that i can’t say a word in german, all knowledge of it has been forgotten by me as some kind of lovecraftian unspeakable horror :D

          • Kühe sind toll
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            21 year ago

            German is a hell to learn. The same word can have different articles depending on the kasus. As example: “Er geht in DIE Küche und kommt aus DER Küche heraus”. Its very hard to understand this as a non native speaker.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Again, the difficulty of language acquisition is determined by how similar the new language you are trying to learn is to the languages you already speak. There isn’t any kind of objective measurement of language acquisition difficulty.

          For whatever reason people are often very resistant to this fact, but just speaking several languages fluently doesn’t mean you actually know shit about linguistics, and this is a very well-established concept.

          So a native Mandarin speaker would probably find English and German equally difficult to acquire because they are both so unlike their own language.

          Fun fact about English; Old English was even more grammatically complex than modern German but it got stripped down over the years and now accomplishes through syntax much of what it used to do with grammar.

          There are also a couple of very odd qualities to English that may have come from the Celtic languages, but the idea is still pretty controversial.

      • @uis
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        31 year ago

        Russian is easier

        • @CheesyFox
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          41 year ago

          Вообще, считается, что чем в языке меньше падежей, тем он проще, но ок, допустим, всё это фигня. Даже в таком случае я соглашусь с тобой лишь на половину, потому что письменную часть даже не все носители способны осилить. Плюс ударения (торты или торты?)). Если ты с детства говоришь на русском, то конечно он для тебя проще, чем английский, особенно с учётом того, как последний подаётся у нас в школах и кем. Я лично его учил, смотря видео на ютубе. Сначала с сабами, потом начал понимать и без них. В общем, мой тейк состоит в том, что английский интуитивен, в то время, как в русском уже -тся -ться у многих вызывает проблемы.

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              loll, man, I was talking about english when I said that I’ve learned it from youtube. If it were as you said, that would’ve been kida disproving of my point.

              i guess it’s less obvious when you translate my comment to english, but the words’ order and phrasing are made in such way that you’ll get the hint

              • Firestorm Druid
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                I misread, probably read what I wanted to read lol.

                Yea, upon reading the comment again, I see what you meant to say. Russian and Ukrainian are my mother tongues, but I only learnt to properly read and write in university - not super good at reading - so I missed that.

                • @CheesyFox
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                  31 year ago

                  Мои тоже. И я могу сказать, что писать по-русски я сам научился скорее в интернете, чем за партой, благо грамотеев в рунете полно, и тебя там быстро научат)

          • @uis
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            21 year ago

            Надо было добавить, что мне он проще.

            Если ты с детства говоришь на русском, то конечно он для тебя проще, чем английский, особенно с учётом того, как последний подаётся у нас в школах и кем. Я лично его учил, смотря видео на ютубе. Сначала с сабами, потом начал понимать и без них.

            По фактам, но начинал с игр. И линупса.

        • @CheesyFox
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          91 year ago

          nice joke, but no, i know 4.The toughest for me personally is czech.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            I swear every single time someone mentions language or doesn’t explicitly say where they’re from someone will fight you saying that you only know one language and one culture and you can’t possibly know anything else lol

            • @CheesyFox
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              well there are some stereotypes about americans, and there are also lots of people in the world that don’t know any languages other than their native ones, so I guess I can see where it’s coming from.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                I’m more referring to where you say you obviously know more than just English, and someone tries to fight you about it. That only comes from bad intentions.

                • @CheesyFox
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                  31 year ago

                  Whatever you call it, but to me it seems simply as a rather not so funny, but still a joke without any implied hostility. People are not as malicious as you think, untill it’s the matter of politics of course.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              The problem is that speaking different languages is not even remotely the same thing as knowing anything about linguistics. People have no idea of how little they actually know about the use of language.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                I’m honestly not sure about how people would go about learning a language without getting so involved that you inevitably catch all of that, I’ve never thought about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Languages are “easier” or more “difficult” based on how similar they are to your native language. There isn’t some objective measure of difficulty across languages.

  • katy ✨
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    81 year ago

    are you too lazy to learn spelling and punctuation

    what isn’t homophobic but feels like it is

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    🚫 🤮engl*sh🤢🚫

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      31 year ago

      🌱💦🌿englush 🌿💦🌱

      • @pigup
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        11 year ago

        See now that’s nice

  • @samus12345
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    41 year ago

    While there is indeed no punctuation, nothing is misspelled. Also, “Understandable, have a nice day, sir.” contains incorrect punctuation in the form of a comma splice.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          That’s fair. My mom passed away last year which just means that you’re even that much more correct.

          That said, I’m in my 50s so both my parents are dead which is pretty regular at my age.

          I’m still getting used to not having parents, but at my age it’s to be expected and probably easier than it would be were I younger.

      • @samus12345
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        31 year ago

        Good catch, I totally missed that.