Re:Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run ...
by Sunspark on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:45PM
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It probably helps that it doesn't require one to memorize 10,000-20,000 individual characters and isn't a multi-tonal language so it also doesn't require excellent hearing discrimination.
English seems to suck as a language but it has risen to be the lingua franca of our present world system - how much of that is because British and American superpowerdom vs being a good lingua franca is up for debate.