English is a horrible language

submitted by yabbit from self.unpopularopinion

God I hate this shitty language. It sounds like shit and is impossible to use properly without years of learning every dumb saying and idiom. Fuck English. Too bad the Romans didn't take over Europe so the international register could be Italian. Now THAT'S a beautiful language. So poetic and melodious. Not like this gutter trash I'm typing right now.

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[–]Jackalope 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

English is terrible, I mainly object to the wildly inconsistent grammar and phonetic rules. As a language, it is terribly designed. I learned some Korean, and that is a very elegant and consistent language.

[–]Foidblaster9000 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Is it consistent? I've heard that it's extremely difficult to learn. I watch a lot of Korean media, and learning would be convenient. I've heard even native speakers say that it's difficult though.

[–]Jackalope 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The grammar rules and phonetics are rigidly consistent compared to English. It is difficult to learn, but I find for me at least, the difficulty is relative only to only other European languages, because we don't share word roots and alphabets and grammar rules at all.

It is much easier to learn than Mandarin for instance. The grammar is very very similar to Japanese, but the written aspects of Korean are far more elegantly simple than Japanese

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Korean speakers crash planes and English speakers don't.

Not sure what my point is but there's something in it.

[–]wellos 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, I understand you. But it seems to me that you are not obliged to learn a language that you do not like, especially since you have a mental block. Personally, I like to learn different languages a little and I want to share with you a lesson https://promova.com/blog/depth-of-love-in-multiple-languages with which you will learn love phrases in different languages of the world. It's a pretty cool idea to make a declaration of love to the person you love.