The Awful German Language (1880)

Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by coldtea on Saturday October 06, 2018 @07:14AM (#18154544)

>It's an awesome language

An awesome language to learn easily or to express yourself with full capacity? Those could be different qualities...

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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by marcus_holmes on Saturday October 06, 2018 @10:12PM (#18158507)

To continue with my coding analogy... German is like Java (huge, sprawling, full of conceptsextendedwaypastthepointofsanity), English is like C++ (mashed together out of two different languages and made to work, mostly), Khmer is like Go (favouring simplicity over expressiveness).

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Re:The Awful German Language (1880) by vram22 on Sunday October 07, 2018 @01:28PM (#18161653)

I wonder Sanskrit would be positioned in that analogy - like Lisp, maybe? Heh. I admit to bias about it, as an Indian and one who likes the language.

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