Daniel · 12 answers · 4y

What do you not like about the english language?

It can feel pretty limiting sometimes, especially coming from someone who's first language is more descriptive. It isn't super great at communicating particular feelings.

I'd say I don't like how nothing is spelled like it sounds and words' spellings are so arbitrary, but if the language were made totally uniform it would probably be ugly af.

Also I don't like how there's no "themself"/"theirself" so you have to say "themselves" even when it's singular. Or how there's no gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun, so you have to use "they" which is plural. I think some words to fill in this role have been proposed, but they all sound retarded to me.

Grammar. It sometimes confuses me. I haven't put much time and effort to properly learn English grammar though. And also sometimes spelling of some words are weird and wildly different from the way you pronounce them.

I do not like that I still do not understand enough idiomatic expressions. And I do not understand the subtle jokes, which may be not due to the language but due to not living in that culture though.

its still called 'english' even though we kicked those redcoats asses, ain't sit rite with me

when people are grammar Nazis when it literally doesn't matter but they think they're smart because they've memorized basic and stupid rules

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