• M500@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    That’s so funny 😂😂

    I can totally understand. Everything about English is difficult.

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      11 months ago

      Hungarian ia the superior language, everything is pronounced how it’s written, no genders, date format is close to iso 8601 wxcept with dots instead of -, you literally just add stuff to the word to change its meaning.

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        11 months ago

        Also:

        • No guesswork about where to place the emphasis because it’s always the first syllable (glaring at Slavic languages)
        • No guesswork about pronunciation beause every letter has exactly one (glaring intensely at Russian)
        • No guesswork about how to construct diacriticised glyphs or diphthongs because everything is defined in the alphabet

        In general, Uralic languages are always superior to Germanics, and only lose against Nordics because of the cool factor.

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          • No guesswork about pronunciation beause every letter has exactly one (glaring intensely at Russian)

          Multiple pronunciations means you can choose any of those options and be correct.

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          The first two are also applicable to English. I still don’t understand half of English poetry because my native-french-speaking ass doesn’t even have an intuitive concept of syllabic stress, and English pronunciation is so beyond fucked it’s not funny. “It’s pronounced read and not read” “-ough like tough not dough” how about STFU.

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        11 months ago

        if you’re willing to go back several hundred years then everything in english was also written how it was pronounced. might not be worth it though

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            11 months ago

            I swear every single time someone mentions language or doesn’t explicitly say where they’re from someone will fight you saying that you only know one language and one culture and you can’t possibly know anything else lol

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              well there are some stereotypes about americans, and there are also lots of people in the world that don’t know any languages other than their native ones, so I guess I can see where it’s coming from.

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              11 months ago

              The problem is that speaking different languages is not even remotely the same thing as knowing anything about linguistics. People have no idea of how little they actually know about the use of language.

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                11 months ago

                I’m honestly not sure about how people would go about learning a language without getting so involved that you inevitably catch all of that, I’ve never thought about it.

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          Вообще, считается, что чем в языке меньше падежей, тем он проще, но ок, допустим, всё это фигня. Даже в таком случае я соглашусь с тобой лишь на половину, потому что письменную часть даже не все носители способны осилить. Плюс ударения (торты или торты?)). Если ты с детства говоришь на русском, то конечно он для тебя проще, чем английский, особенно с учётом того, как последний подаётся у нас в школах и кем. Я лично его учил, смотря видео на ютубе. Сначала с сабами, потом начал понимать и без них. В общем, мой тейк состоит в том, что английский интуитивен, в то время, как в русском уже -тся -ться у многих вызывает проблемы.

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            Надо было добавить, что мне он проще.

            Если ты с детства говоришь на русском, то конечно он для тебя проще, чем английский, особенно с учётом того, как последний подаётся у нас в школах и кем. Я лично его учил, смотря видео на ютубе. Сначала с сабами, потом начал понимать и без них.

            По фактам, но начинал с игр. И линупса.

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              loll, man, I was talking about english when I said that I’ve learned it from youtube. If it were as you said, that would’ve been kida disproving of my point.

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                11 months ago

                I misread, probably read what I wanted to read lol.

                Yea, upon reading the comment again, I see what you meant to say. Russian and Ukrainian are my mother tongues, but I only learnt to properly read and write in university, so I missed that.