The "u" in non-american english

[The Fury]

Rath said:

tedsteriscool said:

Boutros said:

tedsteriscool said:

Boutros said:
BTW English is a very easy language.
And very simple too compared to pretty much all other languages.

Linguists will almost certainly disagree with you on that one.

Why? It really is easy. What's hard about it?

English is a borrowing language. We take so many words from different countries that rules that apply to some words do not apply to others. Also, our grammatical style is very complex, so much that even native speakers talk incorrectly on a day-to-day basis.

Ex)

"Somebody lost their purse." <--Wrong

"Somebody lost her purse." <-- Correct

Are you sure about that one?

I mean I didn't think it was technically incorrect to use it as the indefinite singular.

I'm agreeing with you, the word 'their' is a possession usually used for a multiple persons case but in the case marked wrong, it's used unknown gender which is also correct. Their has 2 main uses, one for a possession for multiple persons, the other for a possession of unknown gender.

Of course, I'd say "Someone's lost their purse." But that's beside the point.

 

On the subject of difficulty in learning the English language, it is apparently hard like most languages are. From most people I talk to it's main due to words sounding similar or having similar composition yet meaning different things. Adding the added factor for USAian's using a different dictionary for some words confuses it more.

Then again, learning foreign languages with male/female/neutral genders for words is weird and makes it more difficult to learn that language.