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Re:Ask HN: Is your mother language any better than English? by billconan on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:31PM (#32072329)
Native Mandarin speaker. I think it is better in some way. For example, there are no verb tenses. Time is conveyed by explicit timestamps.

For example, I watched a movie yesterday is "I watch a movie yesterday" in Chinese. The past-tense and the timestamp are redundant.

There is no concept of countable and uncountable nouns. Because countability doesn't make sense, as everything is made of atoms and uncountable, countability doesn't convey any meaningful message as part of a sentence and only makes a language more complex.

Verbs in Chinese don't need to change their forms according to the subject.

I is

She is

We is

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