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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by cageface on Friday October 05, 2018 @08:16PM (#18152744)
I've been learning Vietnamese for a few years and it seems to just fine without all the complicated tenses and cases etc in the grammar of European languages. I'm not sure if all those baroque rules really buy much.
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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by tom_ on Friday October 05, 2018 @09:10PM (#18152911)
They don't buy anything, but they don't cause any problems either. If they did, the language would have changed to accommodate it, or died out already. But since you're putting the effort in to learn it as it is, clearly neither applies...
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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by repolfx on Saturday October 06, 2018 @04:59AM (#18154232)
The languages have changed - English used to have a more complex grammar (thee, thine, thou, etc) and I think it had genders, but that died out over time.
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