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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Every language is like this. English gets more crap because ~60% of the world speaks it

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

English has a LOT of homophones AND it barely inflects anything. That's certainly not "every language".

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yrah the fact that words in english barely ever change form regardless of context is quite different compared to many other languages.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure all languages get proportionally similar amounts of flak, but crucially it's in their own language. You don't see anyone making fun of Korean because you (presumably) don't speak Korean and don't go to the same kinds of forums where such mockery is more likely.

Source: I speak Hebrew and we make fun of Hebrew all the time.

[–] mrsemi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you like to buy a vowel

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they're as useless and ambiguous as they are in English, we're doing fine without them, thanks :)

[–] mrsemi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

f thy'r s slss nd mbgs s thy r n Nglsh, w'r dng fn wtht thm, thnks :)

Checks out.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

If you watch enough Only Connect, this becomes trivial :P

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Most western languages are way less ambiguous than English. But yeah, every one has some stuff like this.