Is English an exception in how efficiently it deals with relatives by marriage (*-in-law)? Russian, for example, has at least a dozen narrowly specific words in that linguistic corner.
Irregular verbs otoh are very inefficient until you learn them. A thousand corner cases. English has a deep moat of those.
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True. The moat may be deep but you can easily swim over: violating random irregularities is never fatal (meaning both natives and non-natives will still understand you perfectly well)
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In other words, English is much more pidginable than other languages. Feels like.
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