Re:Finnish as a world language?
by rocket_surgeron on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:24PM
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English is the superior language because of its infinite number of states.
It will beat and humiliate the learner, leading them to feel accomplished when they have finally attained proficiency.
By the master, English can be beaten and humiliated into submission and used to accomplish amazing feats of literary insanity.
Think rules matter? In some languages grammar rules (and their exceptions) are strict. When you start to mess around, things fall apart. Meaning evaporates. People don't understand you.
In English? Verbing weirds language.
Logic and reason are the refuge of the unimaginative and dispassionate. The people who don't understand or appreciate the satirical nature of the above article.
It will beat and humiliate the learner, leading them to feel accomplished when they have finally attained proficiency.
By the master, English can be beaten and humiliated into submission and used to accomplish amazing feats of literary insanity.
Think rules matter? In some languages grammar rules (and their exceptions) are strict. When you start to mess around, things fall apart. Meaning evaporates. People don't understand you.
In English? Verbing weirds language.
Logic and reason are the refuge of the unimaginative and dispassionate. The people who don't understand or appreciate the satirical nature of the above article.
The insanity of English is what makes it awesome.