Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it

Re:Article 13 is almost finished and will change the interne... by eps on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:54AM (#18882838)

I'm not a native speaker, so I did learn it.

However I'm just looking at my kids that are tri-lingual at the moment with fourth in the works and they prefer to use English even though we actively force them to speak my wife's and my native languages at home... which are of European group too, so not even close in complexity to Chinese or Arabic. English has less exceptions, there is no conjugation, no gender-specific adjective forms, not that many verb tenses, etc. It's just that - it's an uncomplicated language.

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Re:Article 13 is almost finished and will change the interne... by StavrosK on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:57AM (#18882855)

What's spoken where you live?

EDIT: You edited your comment, so:

> English has less exceptions

Where? Verb tenses form essentially at random.

> It's just that - it's an uncomplicated language.

I disagree. It might not have conjugation, genders, etc, but it managed to more than make up for the lack of complexity with superb amounts of complexity in spelling, phrasal verbs, irregular verbs, etc.

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