As the title says, this popped into my head while walking to my home being showered with subzero frozen rain.

Modern english is just an creole language of 5 different european languages and made super easy to mix the conflicts between those languages. Thats why its so easy to learn for most people.

  • Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    2 days ago

    At least thats what I’ve always heard from various sources during my 40’sh years on this earth (beginning from our english teacher while I was around 9 years old).

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      2 days ago

      I would argue it’s one of the harder ones. Not the hardest for sure (that title would have to go to Japanese or Chinese, probably), but I would say that it’s significantly harder than the average language

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        13 hours ago

        One comment I heard from a native french speaker is that the “dictionary is much larger” than french. Which makes sense because English incorporated many french words.