What do you think is the best language?

[Mnementh]

SvennoJ said:

Mnementh said:

SvennoJ said:
It's definitely easier to type in English, no annoying extra bits above and below letters. 26 letters are also a lot more convenient that thousands of symbols.

My keyboard has keys for characters with extra bits above letters: öäü. Also, even english has extra bits above the ı.

I grew up in the Netherlands, which has umlauts and accents too. Apart from typing the ascii code directly I could never figure out how to consistently conjure up those letters on the standard US keyboards we had. I'm glad to get rid of them.

MDMAliance already pointed out that japanese is even easier to type, phonetic writing, sounds good to me.

Not to take anything away from German, it sounds great to me. It was annoying to learn in school though, do you really need so many verb tenses and der, den, dem, des, die, der, das, ein, einen, einem, eines, eine, einer. I always watch German movies with the German soundtrack. I can understand it, yet not going anywhere near trying to write it.

Btw everything sounds better than Dutch. (then/than, that nonsense needs to stop too :)

I personally don't think German is an especially great language (and that as a german). You are right, german grammar is very hard, pronouncation is also difficult. As a programmer I like the highly logical Mandarin, I vote Chinese for this reason.