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Aug 12, 2021 3:42 PM
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mentor1975
Let me introduce you to the great vowel as shift
KinkyRuFrGirl
As a French and Russian that learned English as a third language and Spanish as fourth : Yes. Also I found it kind of "logical" in a way
LarsLarsPantsonfarrs
I remember having the "shit/the shit" problem with a guy and he thought I said he had a shit brand of marimba
DukeDarkwood
#6 "One is my name. The other... is not."
vodkaho
Try to explain the difference between butt dialing and a booty call to any ESL student...
CoffeeIsMyFavoriteFood
Forgive me father for I have sinned vs sorry daddy, I've been bad
tirohtar
English is easy AF. It basically has no grammar compared to other languages (quite similar to Mandarin actually).
tirohtar
As a downside of that, it's harder in English to communicate complex or nuanced concepts, as the grammatical structures for that are missing
Zega000
#12 if you're crazy, you're batshit. If you're angry, you're apeshit. If you're full of it, you're bullshitting.
YesMyNameIsCalvin
#5 doesn't work with a southern accent...(our sounds like hour)
mrfusspot1990
From the PNW and it's pronounced like "hour" up there too.
TheCaptionGuy
Yacht isn’t an English word tho, that’s the problem. We stole half our shit from other languages and just made the rest of it up w/o reason.
Patte319
Yeah, that guy should be angry at the Dutch. Nigel Powers.gif
devasto
If ever had twin boys, I'd name them Dean and Sean
FluffehBunneh
Cebrail
I find it hilarious all these people who thinks learning English is hard. I’m Danish and have a harder time with Swedish or Norwegian than E
ButtersTheCat
#10 this is missing an apostrophe between the I and the D. We still have grammar rules, y'all.
dank69
It isn't missing, it's in the wrong place. There should be a space between the f and the I.
tanman729
#6 correct probunciation is "day-tah"
Zega000
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
TheTrapThroughTime
He’s correct but for those wondering, the long form is “Buffalo bison, that other Buffalo bison bully, also bully Buffalo bison”.
Rule1TheDoctorLies
I came looking for this comment. Its literary genius.
FirePrinceZuzu
This is such an Anglocentric take. English is a very easy language to learn. An many of those *quirks* are present in other languages too.
wobblecopterrrr
Wrrd
RoombaTheAssaultVacuum
#8 "Queue" is just the letter Q with four letters waiting in line.
AtsaMattaForMe
AsAnItalianItsDifficultTalkingOnTheWebCauseIcantUseMyHands
I love how English speakers only speak 1 language and somehow think that English is uniquely difficult. It’s not unique, and NOT difficult
destinoz
I learned Spanish first, then English in school. It makes no sense. On the bright side though, it makes your spelling bees more exciting.
martinsc0
Every E in Mercedes is pronounced differently
lance415
oh the french has something to say about this!
nopost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmBqIFeHN8&ab_channel=MattColbo
Eucadian
Ohh the French https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s
mward1984
Aged can be pronounced two different ways depending on it being used as a verb or an adjective.
mward1984
"An aged Priest walked into the restaurant and asked for a well aged red wine." for example uses both.
Broken08
Are and our are pronounced differently
Djsocar
#7 isn't yacht dutch?
TrapperQ
Yaught? Yauht? Youg..? Yoght? Yought? Yot? ... types "words that rhyme with Not" into google. FUCKIN' CH? Shite I'm going to a restoront!
Asteroidrules
A lot of the weirdest words in English are loans from even weirder languages, usually French.
DontAskMeAboutMyUsernameOkay
#9 The other 4 letters are just waiting their turn.
squintish
I almost hate how clever that was. Rrrrgh, plus one I guess.
jrredneck
No. Its they are quietly waiting in the queue for their turn to talk.
DontAskMeAboutMyUsernameOkay
I didn't want to spoil the whole joke by saying queue again.
wholady
you did well +1
TheRicM
Filipino: "Bababa ba?" ("Are they going to get out of the car?")
orbitn
there's some chinese poem that is made up entirely of, i think, "se" with different tones
TheRicM
Yes this is a tonal/accentuation/inflection thing also. Pronounced something like, "ba-ba BA ba ba?"
orbitn
My best friend growing up was laotian.. Im pretty sure the language is tonal because my friend always made fun of me when i didn't get the>
orbitn
words right because of my tennessee accent. Though i clearly understood when his mom said "bah lao bai bahn".. meaning tell him to gtfo
TheRicM
Right, yeah I think the more monosyllabic languages (a lot of the SE Asian ones) will also be tonal due to the fewer syllables. "Gtfo" haha
Spudworth
#4 Seán is an Irish name The á gives it the aw sound. Without the fada over the a the word means old on Irish. The other variants are posers
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Spudworth
English is Germanic and Irish is Goidelic. It has its own rules and alphabet. English might be a mashup of languages Irish isn't one of them
DukeDarkwood
Modern English is Germanic heavily influenced by Latin and French. Still nothing from the Irish family, true, but an important distinction.
Allrighty
I'm sure there's at least a handful of Gaelic loans.
3Davideo
InternetPeasantry
And yacht (#7) is a Dutch word that English speakers pronounce wrong because English doesn't have the ch fricative.
hypperzz22
Loch Ness and aw the rest would like a word with you on that one
InternetPeasantry
Loch is Gaelic, not English. That particular uvular fricative doesn't exist in standard English, hence the struggle with yacht or Bach.
orbitn
I can't believe your chutzpah.
InternetPeasantry
Exactly.
Hexrowe
It's highly arbitrary and wildly inconsistent about everything, but IMO that's honestly part of its charm and creative flexibility. :)
FrolickingFrolicking
“It”? What is “it”? The SPELLING? Language is not spelling. Orthography is a random bucket of garbage doing a job.
Hexrowe
Oh, that's just English orthography, specifically. In SOME languages you can actually tell how to say any word just by how it's written.
Lampmonster
Good language for writing stories, bad language for simple written instructions.
gecko08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3r9bOkYW9s The history of english in 10 minutes
NationalistCanadianMooseWarrior
Idk, I think it needs to be deconfuckulated.
iLynux
Yeah I love Anglish. It's a beautiful and interesting language.
funkmoth
Where would Eminem be without it?!
DontLookAtMeInThatToneOfVoicee
Up the 8 Mile still
Foxsayy
One thing I admire about English is it's ability to be EXTREMELY specific. We have SO many adjectives and words, & objects aren't gendered.
Foxsayy
It can also be extremely vague, the various ways of saying things & double-meanings of words also makes it very flexible in lit, like poetry
Hexrowe
As a native Finnish speaker, all I can do is a smugly superior smirk. :D English is really good about just yoinking what it needs, though!
Franklynormal
I honestly think english is one of the easiest language to learn for Germans at least. There are rules and there are exceptions, which 1/
Franklynormal
Are more or less frequently used and even if not, people still understand what you mean. French for example has rules but every 2nd word 2/
Franklynormal
Is an exception. Spanish for example has some words that are hard to pronounce if you can't do a special thing with your tongue. 3/
Franklynormal
So for me, if Germans don't speak english, they're either not connected to the internet, old or lazy. Thank you for listening to my Ted talk
ChevyNova1973
I find life gets much more interesting when you learn to do that special thing with your tongue
BatsArentBugs
Agreed - I lean into it. I’ve decided the past tense of “glide” is just “glid” you can’t stop me.
JustFeedMePieDammit
Past tense “screenshot” is “screenshat”
EatsBees
Spatulor
ITellBadPuns
As someone who had to learn English AND French, holy SHIT English has nothing on French. French can go and fuck itself with all its bullshit
boogertown
Geaux away
CgnCalling
Or as the French say: “Tel Aviv “
sreav
Yeah I came down here to mention French as well.
mmontour
“Eau”, pronounced “o”.
Fenwaywookie
Counting alone in french. Fuck that
nopost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmBqIFeHN8&ab_channel=MattColbo
xyxyxyxy31
artuurvdk11
FUCK FRENCH!
rahbeNoodleBandit
Why so? Or as the french say, oiseaux?
ITellBadPuns
Think like this. English is to the metric system what French is to the imperial system.
nopost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rmBqIFeHN8&ab_channel=MattColbo
pattyymac
Ver ver ver ver ver ver ver ver. Or however it's spelled
rahbeNoodleBandit
We get ver you're going.
StevenAlleyn
Hello fellow Québécois
ITellBadPuns
Not quite. French is actually my third language learned. Somali is my first language.
StevenAlleyn
Jeez you’re a polyglot, nice :)
Ninjainslippers
Yeah all this "English is so hard" stuff comes from mostly native English speakers who don't speak other languages. It's not especially hard
edgeofadhesion
English doesn't stick to strict rules, which makes it seem super random at times. Like how auxiliary verbs are not always used.
FrolickingFrolicking
The rules are strict. They strictly allow for options, like most languages do.
Welley
I read/write/speak 4 languages and English is by far the easiest one to learn.
Ninjainslippers
Which languages? I'm a native English speaker but learning Spanish has felt like the easiest one to learn.
poplasia
My understanding is that English is really easy to get understandable (given it plays fast n’ loose with word order), but hard to get fluent
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
WHY keep the original spellings, if you are gonna say them differently!? English is a mess, but at least it had the decency to change 1/2
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
the spellings to match the changing pronunciations!2/2
ITellBadPuns
French uses accents to tell you how it sounds, like é = 'ay'. But then also sometimes uses a dozen other spellings like ez, ai, ais. And...
ITellBadPuns
...sometimes those spellings don't sound like that. Because French wants you and everyone you love to suffer.
hildr
You mean the French? Because nothing in english writing tell you how to pronounce a word, really, you have 2/3 to be wrong.
ITellBadPuns
French counters that with literally every word being masculine or feminine and you just have to know which one, and every single verb...
ITellBadPuns
...having a different spelling for every different tense and conjugation.
BatsArentBugs
As an armchair linguist, French is really difficult to learn, but for the most part the language doesn’t lie to you the way English does.
ThePastmaster
ITellBadPuns
Both languages have a fuckload of exceptions, but French sets about 5 times as many rules as English, and then breaks every single one.
ITellBadPuns
Like, all proper verbs that end in IR follow the same rules. Except avoir and faire, two extremely common verbs. Because fuck you that's why
Questionablysensible
Its not a coincidence that the most used verbs are irregular. It's like that in just about any language
BatsArentBugs
Oh, those are, ah, irregular? Yeah, yeah that’s what we call em.
ITellBadPuns
English is Chaotic Neutral and French is Chaotic Evil. English has no rules, but French sets rules just to break them and make you suffer.
thepawi
Exactly was I said when I was in school
phalanxausage
French is lawful evil. Got damn those people love them some rules. Maddening, opaque, contradictory rules.
Soufange
I was just thinking of that tiktok with the dude explaining that fucken ae bullshit the French pulled while I was on a plane today.
Marukina
Oeuf et all
BatsArentBugs
Love it
confanity
The irony, of course, is that a lot of spelling-related BS in English is there specifically because of French.
BatsArentBugs
True. Also many other languages too that English picked up tips and tricks from while it was young and impressionable. Like, “Ghost” AYFKM?
confanity
No, that one's relatively logical and 100% Germanic. It's related to "aghast," and only seems weird because of phonetic drift in the "gh."
BatsArentBugs
I’m gonna call an audible on that. Im no expert, but IIR the “gh” comes from imported Flemish typesets and just sorta stuck. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
BatsArentBugs
Also, that’s my point - it’s wack.
BatsArentBugs
Like counting is obviously stupid in French, but it follows rules you can learn. Spelling in English? Just regular enough to have rules, but
BatsArentBugs
If you don’t know the etymology of a word you are blind guessing at best.
hildr
That's why they can do spell contest in english but barely in french, we can pronounce even words we never heard of! And correctly! Imagine!
ITellBadPuns
I still can't get over how 80 is 'four twenties' and 90 is 'four twenties, ten'. I've never gotten past that one lmfao
Fheuef
It does sound stupid it's just our words for 80 and 90, we count the same way as you guys, not in fucking twenties
pandro
Apparently they don't have spelling bees in other languages. idk if true but ha ha
16745
Different values. Not being an analphabet is a sideeffect of most education systems over here, not their goal. Nothing to be proud of, so /