myself, i dont understand why people dont ditch their underoptimized languages for sleek beautiful englishhttps://twitter.com/LoicTheStoic/status/1357286434038833154 …
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english is the SI language and its time we flexed about this
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honestly, I'm all for standardization but English is a terrible language to learn lmao I mean, it's fun, but like, there are so many idiomatic expressions used so constantly that it's nearly impossible to learn to a reasonable degree without speaking it all the time
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Replying to @GuilleAngeris @eigenrobot
also fun rules "I before e except after c" oh have you noticed that doing the opposite of this rule gives you better accuracy
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"Wait, so how do we pronounce clique" is it "click" or "clee-k" nobody knows and everyone looks at the other person funny for pronouncing it that way
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Replying to @GuilleAngeris @eigenrobot
the number of times I've read words and used them in conversation only to have my friends look at me when I say them weirdly *has* been a constant source of amusement tho like, c'mon you'd think a nice property to have is the ability to read something and pronounce it aloud
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Replying to @GuilleAngeris @eigenrobot
with like, at least 60% probability, but nooo, English doesn't even follow its implicit rules half the time :(
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Replying to @GuilleAngeris @eigenrobot
otoh, whatever, most even non-idiomatic English is still reasonably readable and at least sensical (this is not the case with a, uh, number of other languages, afaict) which does make it useful for Science™ for the most part but it's a language with a lot of finicky specifics
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(I'm not saying there aren't other languages that are worse, ofc; tradeoffs abound, but this is coming from someone who learned English as a second language and became fluent enough to be confused for a native speaker)
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It *does* make for some funny conversations though with people I've known for a while "Wait, you speak Spanish?!" "Yeah, my name is literally Guillermo Andrés Angeris, like, c'mon this is the first thing you could've guessed; it doesn't take much"
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ikik, I took the bait, but it was actually kinda fun! I mean, I agree with the general premise, just funny how beautifully terrible English is :) (and then thought it'd be even more fun to write a thread about it instead of doing my work and here we are)
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