A detailed analysis of why the English language sucks - General

I believe Polish is the worst language; Zaręczyliśmy się w zeszłą niedzielę zzsszz zzsz zzsz! English is alright but I preferred it back in Shakespeare's time.

English is a crappy language. One cannot write anything that will remain permanently comprehensible. Unlike other languages that have definitive authorities telling their speakers what is right and wrong, English speakers only have a few dictionaries. This means that the language slowly degenerates after generations of slang and borrowing from other languages, and eventually we can't understand things written only a couple of hundred years ago. Also, my being a writer, writing does feel very choppy at times, even at my best. English is total crap, is simple and difficult at the same time, and, frankly, there's just not much to it, if you know what I mean. One can't be very poetic or even enticing in English, because no words really sound like what they represent when they're strung together. They just sound like consonants. Eff this, I quit.

[QUOTE=Blackwater;22286701]Nothing is as sexy as the british accent. Coming from a dane.[/QUOTE] This.

[QUOTE=Heroms;22287968]I believe Polish is the worst language; Zaręczyliśmy się w zeszłą niedzielę zzsszz zzsz zzsz! English is alright but I preferred it back in Shakespeare's time.[/QUOTE] I read that in Dr. Strangelove's voice.

[QUOTE=ThePuska;22286687]It's how English evolves over time, and a comparable effect is visible in other languages as they borrow from the English language. But it's not the only way and I don't think it's the best one. I'm sure you understand that I appreciate having different cultures.[/QUOTE] Different cultures are nice, but English is useful too. Eftersom jag tvivlar på att många förstår detta. We need one "main langauge", otherwise we're back to improvised handsigns, mimes and sketches.

meh at least we don't have masculine and feminine words

[QUOTE=radioactive;22287308]X isn't needed. Xylophone can be spelt with a Z. Xenophobic can be spelt with a Z.[/QUOTE] What about X-Ray?

This isn't an analysis, this is a report. Analysis' do not contain opinion. Let alone you apparently know nothing about linguistics, or anything with the pretext of language.

You seem to use it well enough.

[QUOTE=Kidd;22288186]What about X-Ray?[/QUOTE] Ecks-Ray! :eng101:

English is easily the easiest language to learn, honestly It deserves its title of "international language"

[QUOTE=Xyrec;22285819]Germany is far worse, I hate the fucking 'gender' of words.[/QUOTE]

English is one of the most adaptive languages there are. If you don't like it, then too bad.

I agree with OP, most of his post is true. I'm that everyone who rated him Box just couldn't be arsed to read an/or are just stubborn and dumb.

There is a disturbing trend right now - due to the shift in pronunciation of the letter h, future generations will not understand the "an hero" meme.

I am the liking of the English. It are a learning easy of language

Anyone else read the whole thread with a british accent in their head?

Only thing I hate about english is that there is no plural "you" There is plural "I" which is "we" but not "you"

Read the post guys, he's training his debating skills.

English is great because you only have to conjugate one verb and there is no gender.

[QUOTE=Miktor.;22286844]Not really, it has way too many little exceptions in the grammar, that you have to remember.[/QUOTE] Which makes it so brilliant when you understand.

It also has more words than any other language. More literature is in English than any other language.

doubleplusungood oldspeak ungood newspeak good livelong bb

[QUOTE=Xyrec;22285819]Germany is far worse, I hate the fucking 'gender' of words.[/QUOTE] just because it's harder to learn doesn't mean it's worse. Icelandic has like 20 different ways of saying each word. The words in the english language are so out of the blue. They are just random sounds. If we'd compare it with icelandic you'd see how icelandic words are mostly combinations of simpler words. So even if you haven't even heard a complicated icelandic word before, as long as you know the basic words you'll be able to understand them quite well. EDIT: For example "Eyjafjallajökull". Is a combination of "Island Mountain Glacier". Go google translate it.

[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;22288715]I am the liking of the English. It are a learning easy of language[/QUOTE] Well, you're clearly not proving your point very well...

[QUOTE=radioactive;22287308]X isn't needed. Xylophone can be spelt with a Z. Xenophobic can be spelt with a Z.[/QUOTE] aks eksplanation ekstreme zenodrocks :confused:

I ask you to create a better language then. Go on. Show me your perfect language.

[QUOTE=blubafoon;22288854]Read the post guys, he's training his debating skills.[/QUOTE] It does kind of discourage me from answering some of the better posts in this thread when most people don't even read the first two paragraphs of the OP

[QUOTE=Roskarnolkov;22287975]English is a crappy language. One cannot write anything that will remain permanently comprehensible. Unlike other languages that have definitive authorities telling their speakers what is right and wrong, English speakers only have a few dictionaries. This means that the language slowly degenerates after generations of slang and borrowing from other languages, and eventually we can't understand things written only a couple of hundred years ago. [b]Also, my being a writer,[/b] writing does feel very choppy at times, even at my best. English is total crap, is simple and difficult at the same time, and, frankly, there's just not much to it, if you know what I mean. [b]One can't be very poetic or even enticing in English,[/b] because no words really sound like what they represent when they're strung together. They just sound like consonants. Eff this, I quit.[/QUOTE] I doubt that you're a writer. If you are, it's for a high school newspaper. [QUOTE=Wheeze201;22289132]just because it's harder to learn doesn't mean it's worse. Icelandic has like 20 different ways of saying each word. The words in the english language are so out of the blue. They are just random sounds. If we'd compare it with icelandic you'd see how icelandic words are mostly combinations of simpler words. So even if you haven't even heard a complicated icelandic word before, as long as you know the basic words you'll be able to understand them quite well. EDIT: For example "Eyjafjallajökull". Is a combination of "Island Mountain Glacier". Go google translate it.[/QUOTE] We have that too, but our language constantly evolves so it gets lost. For example, I live near "Chipping Barnet". Barnet comes from Bergnet, which is Saxon for "little hill", and the word "Chipping" means there's a market there (the famous "Barnet Fair" which is Cockney rhyming slang for "hair"), from the old English "Ceping". My sister lives in Oxford. Oxford's easier to understand - it's where in Saxon times there was a ford (a river crossing that people had instead of bridges) across the river Ox. Heck, look at Manchester. "chester" means it was a Roman hill fort. Man is thought to come from the Celtic name "Mamm", meaning "breast", because the hill is boob shaped. So Chipping Barnet means "Market on the little hill", Oxford means "Crossing point of the river Ox", and Manchester means "Hill fort on the breast shaped hill". However, because our language is more flexible, that's not necessarily obvious. Britain has a rich cultural history with many invasions, whilst Iceland is all the way out there in the middle of the sea so you've stayed unchanged.

English is one of the simplest languages ever made, that's why people love it.