does anyone else feel like english is very much different form the other gerrmanic languages?
>a shit ton of romance loan words >irregular spelling >way less mutual intelligibility with the other languages >compound words are not written as one word >no genders
Caleb Adams
thats because its a mixture of the two dumb dumb
Hunter Jones
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Asher Martin
Yeah, and I'm glad the Romans and Normans conquered us. Pure Germanic languages are autistic and ugly as fuck.
Angel Ortiz
>implying english is pretty
Charles Smith
you made this thread everyday and it's boring
Lucas Adams
As if you can tell the gender of Dutch words. As if Dutch isn't mostly romance (if you count all words). As if Dutch spelling rules aren't pulled out of our asses.
Jace Fisher
Far better than the retarded German dialect of Dutch
William Miller
dutch spelling is consistent though. apart from french loanwords. english spelling is more like a suggestion than a rule. also at least in dutch you can tell if a word is m/f or neutral.
Josiah Gray
>As if you can tell the gender of Dutch words.
yes you can. You know that "huis" is neutral; "het huis" and that "man" is common gendered: "de man"
>As if Dutch isn't mostly romance (if you count all words). is isn't
>As if Dutch spelling rules aren't pulled out of our asses. dutch is very consistent whereas english isn't.
Colton James
Dutch is (mostly) phonetic due to multiple reforms, but the past tense with -d -t -dt -dd -tt - e -en rules make little sense (even to Dutch people). And it's true that you can tell the difference between genderless words and words with a gender, but you can't tell the difference between male and female words.
Sebastian King
Naah. i'm learning French at the moment and find it way more difficult then English.
Hunter Rivera
the past tense with the -d-t -dt-tt always made sense to me. thats maybe because i learned german before i learned dutch. what past tense with -e -en are you talking about? i dont seem to recall such a thing yeah that is a pain that you cant tell the gender of masculine and feminine words.
John Reed
>Dutch is (mostly) phonetic due to multiple reforms, but the past tense with -d -t -dt -dd -tt - e -en rules make little sense (even to Dutch people).
yes it does. Unless you are retarded. Even if you are too much of a vegetable to know the simple rules, it is still consistent.
>And it's true that you can tell the difference between genderless words and words with a gender,
exactly.
> but you can't tell the difference between male and female words.
"masculine and feminine" in dutch is a meme kept alive by the language union. 95% of dutch dialects today do not have the male/female destinction, just the common gender/ neuter destinction, same as in swedish and danish, which lost the male/female destinction long ago.
Eli Wood
Hij bereidde zich voor < very important double d Hij bereidt zich voor. < very important t do not forget Ik mij bereid mij voor
Meanwhile in reality: Wij berydu ons voor.
Hunter Clark
*Ik bereid mij voor
Added to many mij's desu.
Luke Long
ja mee eens, nog steeds consequent
Liam Gutierrez
>irregular spelling >compound words are not written as one word So fucking what? Spelling can change on a daily basis. Spelling does not change a language, it does not determine the character of a language. Spelling is a man made construct to visualise language. You could even start writing any language with Arabic or Georgian script or whatever and it would still be the same language.
Gavin Cook
That's doopin' mental
Jayden Myers
while it can be done, you need an actual reform and standardization to adopt a new script. some languages are sensitive to soft/hard vowels and consonants and using the wrong one can change the meaning of some words.
Charles Ramirez
Have fun with our ~20 different tenses.
Benjamin Jackson
This is why I dont really like the way English does its words. For example lead and lead have the same spelling, yet are pronounced differently. You can criticize us all you want for our retarded spelling, but its very strict and follows clearly defined rules that allows to find other words from the same root more easily.
Gavin Ramirez
english is fucking shit which is part of the reason it's taught everywhere, i'm sure monkeys can be trained to speak it