Ostro said:
It may be an easy, cleverly small and reasonable language (thanks to history). But not perfect or the best. |
Dude, did you read my post? The whole "it has rules that make no other sense or have any other analogues in other languages" part ring a bell? I was making fun of English, being sarcastic, you know? I tried to make it as over the top sarcastic as possible, guess it didn't work.
English is not a graceful language at all, and its not Latin slang without grammer either. It's truthfully a mixture of Celtic, French, Old German, and Nordic all mixed into one. For example, the food stuffs follow french, beef would be buef (spelling?) in french. The animal it comes from, cow, is coo in german (spelling again?) The peasants generally had Germanic roots while the land holders were of Latin-French descent. Add in transit across the North Sea from Nordic Tribes, and the crossing of the Channel by the Celtic tribes, and you have one mess of a language, which is why so many non-native English speakers have such a hard time learning English.
The best language is probably Japanese, it has very simple rules, 5 total vowel sounds, and very logical sentence progression. The only problem is that American culture has introduced all sorts of slang to the once easy language that has convoluted it some. Of course the huge barrier to entry of Japanese is the Kanji character set. Having to learn 10000 characters to be literate is not an easy or quick process.







