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[i3670]

An example of why English is weird.

Guess what word: Ghoti

Answer:

Spoiler below!

Fish

the gh = f as in rouGH
the o = i as in wOmen
the ti = sh as in naTIon

[Red]

@Flawless It is called gender, like in swedish or germany, which has three genders, if i am not mistaken.

In finnish there is no genders, tree would be: "Puu", if you were talking about one tree.
"Puut", would be trees in plurar, and for example "puitako?" means "Did you mean at trees?" Or "puutko?", "trees?".
"Puineen" = "With his/ her trees". "Puillaneenko?" = "Did you possibly mean with his/her trees, perhaps?"
The suffix gives the word a meaning.


And about usage of tree, it gives this "spruce" joke.

Spoiler below!

[Mudbill]

English also has two words for "a" (the other being "an") although I don't think it's considered gender.

In Norway we have a similar thing as in Denmark, except we have 3 genders. En is masculine, ei is feminine, and et is genderless. Not that many bother to use the feminine one though, because it works well enough to use the masculine in its place.

[Romulator]

English is weird.

English is a lazy language. Pretty much all of its words come from Latin, Greek, Roman or extensive jargon usage. The rest come from international languages, such as spaghetti coming from Italian language.

It is arguably the easiest language to learn in terms of wording, but most difficult based on the way tenses, grammar and sentence structure works.

[Mudbill]

Easy to learn, hard to master.

[i3670]

English is weird.

English is a lazy language. Pretty much all of its words come from Latin, Greek, Roman or extensive jargon usage. The rest come from international languages, such as spaghetti coming from Italian language.

It is arguably the easiest language to learn in terms of wording, but most difficult based on the way tenses, grammar and sentence structure works.

Funny thing is, today it's the other way round. Just the other day I saw someone write 'Strong', with the same meaning, but in a Swedish sentence.

[Red]

Yep, easier to pick and change the word pronouncaeable if needed, than invent a whole new one.
English has the largest vocalubary of all, although it loans it words from elsewhere.

[Mudbill]

mfw trying to learn french

[Slanderous]

mfw trying to learn french

try to learn german. Or polish.
Life's too short to learn my language.

[Red]

Here's something to tell which languages are easy and which aren't.
Deducing with this, Germany or French seem like an easy language to learn.