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Marxism-Fennekinism to Memes@lemmy.ml • 3 years ago

English is the worst language: An anthology.

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English is the worst language: An anthology.

Marxism-Fennekinism to Memes@lemmy.ml • 3 years ago
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  • @jorgesumle@lemmy.pt
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    12•3 years ago

    Esperanto is better

    • @graphito@beehaw.org
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      1•3 years ago

      tamen neniu parolas esperante

      • @jorgesumle@lemmy.pt
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        4•3 years ago

        Estas multe da homoj, kiuj parolas Esperanton.

  • @onlooker@lemmy.ml
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    6•3 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

    • art
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      1•3 years ago

      Thank you, this is now my new favorite thing.

  • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    5•3 years ago

    French is worse

    • @Aarkon@feddit.de
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      7•3 years ago

      French is inefficient in the sense that you write a lot more letters than you speak, but to my knowledge it’s at least consistent - unlike this JavaScript of spoken languages.

      • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        In German and Spanish, letters have same phonetic in words as in the aplphabet (mostly), but Spain isnt very handy in tecnical and mathematical expressions.

        ON- OFF = ENCENDIDO - APAGADO Worse also French - ninety eight = quatre vingt dix huit = four twenty ten eight

        • @basiliscos@lemmy.ml
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          3•3 years ago

          Same for Russian

        • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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          2•3 years ago

          Non ten-exponent numbers is way more common than you think.

          In India, you get the lakh (hundred thousand or 1,00,000), and the crore (ten million or 1,00,00,000), and so on.

          In Chinese, you have one, ten, hundred, thousand. Then wan (ten thousand), ten wan (hundred thousand), hundred wan (million), thousand wan (ten million). Then, you don’t get wan wan (hundred million), you get a new word, yi, then ten yi, hundred yi, so on until you get another new word for yi yi, and so on. Basically, the system is that you can multiply any magnitude word by any magnitude word smaller than it, but once you get to what would have been the magnitude word multiplied by itself, it’s time for a new word. Actually a pretty cool system, coming from a Chinese speaker, but it means it takes me a minute to translate between Chinese and English numbers.

        • Raton_en_Criss
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          2•3 years ago

          the french way to spell number is way easier imo, quatre vingt dix huit, 4*20+10+8 = 98, super intuitive when you give it a bit of thought.

          • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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            1•3 years ago

            Only when you use apart from the fingers, you also use the toes. I would not like the way to express fractions and orders. 43/313 in French, please 😵

            • Raton_en_Criss
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              1•3 years ago

              quarante trois / sur / trois cent treize. 40+3 / 3*100+13 , its not that hard

    • التنينوكس
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      3•3 years ago

      @Zerush @HiddenLayer5 Liek what?

  • Lenins2ndCat
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    5•3 years ago

    Police police police police police police police police.

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      1•3 years ago

      Have one more

  • SudoDnfDashY
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    5•3 years ago

    English is just drunk Latin.

  • J4YC33 (They/Them)
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    2•3 years ago

    Some Karen is gonna name their kid Ptoughneigh because of this…

    • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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      2•3 years ago

      Don’t give Elon Musk any ideas please

    • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      Apparently, there are actual humans with the name “Abcde” and “Nevaeh” (heaven backwards), or straight up “Heaven” and other random nouns.

      Like, do you hate your kids?

  • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    Removed by mod

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