LOL, love songs in German sound like death metal .
I (can) write better English than most English people I know and I can speak Malay quite well too. I can kinda understand some words in French, German, Arabic, Slovak, Mandarin, some of the northern Malay dialects but can't really speak them too well.
But I know enough to know that English is one of the world's most inefficient languages (next to French), in the sense that it's hard to learn, has plenty of useless words (like of, a, an, the), and has a sexist approach to referring to other people (he, she). It's also hard to pronounce with all those silent letters/phrases, and the shortest letter in the language shows how self-centered the people who invented the language were . Damn the people who made it the most popular language in the world... but I'm happy it's not french. Or Chinese. Chinese is annoying with all the lines and tonal stuff. People actually type chinese characters by typing their equivalent in roman letters, letting the phone dictionary change it to chinese .
Japanese is easy .
Disclaimer: Any sarcasm in my posts will not be mentioned as that would ruin the purpose. It is assumed that the reader is intelligent enough to tell the difference between what is sarcasm and what is not.
English is inefficient in some senses, but far superior to other European languages in others:
For example, English has one definite article (the). Spanish has two (el and la), whilst German has three (der, die, das). Also, nouns are always the same, no matter what the gender, unlike French, Spanish etc. Also English plurals are easy to learn, just add "s" (or "es" if it ends with an s sound).
Pronunciation is the hardest thing to learn in English, for example "ough". This can be cough, dough, thorough, through, tough, etc etc.
Muz, I'm surprised you think that English is sexist by having he/she/it. Are they basically not the same word? All they do is distinguish what sex the person (or object) is. Does Malay not have these types of pronouns?
Also "the shortest letter in the language shows how self-centered the people who invented the language were". This doesn't make any sense.
"I"? Or "me"? Well... if you really think so... modern English evolved in three phases though. Modern English is also a music group, but that's irrelevant.
English as my first (I'm a writer, and therefore a grammar whore), then Spanish (going on four years in high school plus two in middle school, so basically five years), i can still understand Malayalam (Indian language) but I always want to respond in Spanish since there are similar pronunciation gimmicks (like how "necesita" is pronounced more like "necesitha"). I want to learn Japanese, and of course knowing Spanish helps with understanding other Romance languages.
I found english quiet easy...as well as pronounciation...But maybe because my first language is Português, it helped. Also português does help me with french, spanish and italian, spanish being the easiest of them all.
Apparently I can't edit... I meant a grammar whore for myself only. Don't care if others mess around the English language. Heck, I don't even bother to capitalize stuff on instant messengers if the other person doesn't do it.
BeamSplash, I think you're a grammar whore who's a bit too fond of ellipses...
And Newt, indeed I've read that Portuguese is a hard language to learn. I hear Cristiano Ronaldo speak and it sounds like Albanian of something. Lots of "sh" and "j" sounds.
I got a mobile phone the other day and it's hard not to slip into silly "txt spk". I found myself writing "tmoz" instead of tomorrow, but I think it would have cost me another text message cos the word is long.
I am a bit annoying when it comes to typical grammatical errors like "I was stood/sat" - especially when an english teacher can't even get it right. + oh yeah I hate abuse of the apostrophe and double negatives...
Yea I agree, I do enjoy english very much. Also, there's nothing wrong..in my opinion at least to abreviate things when you're in a hurry, or you don't feel like typing it all. Unless you do it so much that it becomes a habit, and you start indeed writting like that at all times.
Butcher Bill: Thank God you didn't have a Ukrainian English teacher like we had. Miss Khorolets she was called. We used to have to correct her spellings and grammar when she was writing on the board and she kept on slipping in Ukrainian words by accident.
She's gone back to Ukraine now, thanks to a timely divorce with one of the senior teachers.
Phizzy: Nobody's accent is worse than your mangled RP-ish holler, flatulence boy.
Yes Phizzy, off course we 'foreigners' have accents..but my accent is not thick and my pronounciation is very good, or so I've been told...and yes, being portuguese does help alot, because english is easy, specially it's grammar to learn compared to a language such as portuguese.
Oh, and about the horrible horrible accent comments, you've got no idea how many times this horrible accent of mine you so talk about has gotten me laid as well as looks off course lol. So i am glad that not everyone think like you, at least most people i've been around loved accents
Advertisement
Post Reply
But if I would unlearn it, and learn another one, it'd be German, so I could watch Scheisse movies without subtitles.
. Damn the people who made it the most popular language in the world... but I'm happy it's not french. Or Chinese. Chinese is annoying with all the lines and tonal stuff. People actually type chinese characters by typing their equivalent in roman letters, letting the phone dictionary change it to chinese 
Edited by the Author.
lol. So i am glad that not everyone think like you, at least most people i've been around loved accents 