When people go off about how English is the worst language, I just wanna point out a few things:
- Our future tense requires only one word (looking at you, Spanish)
- Words donât change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese)
- We donât live in some bizarre Beauty And The Beast world where we give inanimate objects genders (romance languages, German)
- Likewise, we donât have have two different words for âtheyâ because we donât care whether âtheyâ were male or female (Spanish, French)
- Thereâs no formal âyouâ because we donât play mind games about whether or not we respect you (Spanish, German)
- We donât alter the whole fucking language based on how much we respect you (Japanese)
- The letters and sounds might not be consistent, but at least we have letters, not just pictures (Mandarin)
- We donât have a fucking stupid tense specifically for talking to two people because some idiot decided that a two-person tense was necessary (Arabic)
So yeah, I think weâre doing okay as a language