I get a tad annoyed by this because it's like people kind of want to talk about how bad English is -- how incredibly hard English spelling is etc. -- as another way to make it sound special And it's really not *that* specialhttps://twitter.com/benjanun_s/status/1265209402786590720 …
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Chinese "spelling" (hanzi) is objectively many times more difficult than writing English and people manage
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It is all one big circlejerk in the end, this whole "Our beautiful chaotic mess of a language" stuff And it's like whatever, this is just what's typical for any "world language" that's the lingua franca of a large empire
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Who the hell is PROUD of how convoluted the English language is?!
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Well it's like being proud of all the different ethnic cuisines at the supermarket, it's a stealth way of saying you're proud of being an empire
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