2026-09-08 23:49 UTC
Replies (13)
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@daggermoon@piefed.world 2026-09-09 03:03
French is shitty Latin.
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@Lumidaub@feddit.org 2026-09-08 23:53
I know you’re not speaking English while complaining about irregular grammar in other languages, I just know.
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@AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2026-09-09 03:59
Its counter intuitive but a certain amount of irregularity helps languages. By far the easiest rated languages are isolating and lightly inflecting langauges, and from my experience this is even true if your native language is agglutinative. What a lot of these “easy” languages have in common is that theyre not inherently regular, they have irregular word endings and totally arbritary ways of constructing sentences in a way to convey meaning. On the other hand you have of course the languages that are just so irregular that theres no vibe you can go off of like in romance languages(theyre extremely easy to learn if you move to place where theyre spoken) like navajo. Many words go from “i mean that “s” or “a” fits there” to “why is the word form changing completely in this one specific case”, on other words you loose all grounding. But i believe the reason a lot of people struggle with highly synthetic languages is the exact opposite, you have to specify everything in the right way or your sentence wont make sense. In highly irregular languages any piece of a sentence could be very important to the meaning, in a highly regular language every piece of the sentence is important to the meaning and right in the middle are languages that mostly follow rules but not always. Also in very regular languages its often not possible to make the reductions which humans love to do. You might have to specify a piece of information over and over in different ways without it leading to the sentence being more understandable. Idk these are my two cents as a definitely native speaker of hungarian and kinda sorta native english speaker.
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@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-09 04:19
We actually have this in English too. For example, the masculine form is “the white coat” where the feminine is “the eggshell coat”.
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@red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-09 05:21
Languages have made-up rules by people trying to bring some order into the chaos that actual languages are. The only point of languages is to bring some point across. As long as the receiver understands what the sender was trying to say, it worked. No matter how “wrong” someone else might find it. All the crap about grammar and spelling is like >90% classism.
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@Sordid_Seraphim@lemmy.zip 2026-09-09 00:20
On an unrelated topic the letter “C” exists as a testament to the depravity of man
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@HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-09 07:14
This is why Lojban is the best language.
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@flango@lemmy.eco.br 2026-09-09 02:21
The change is due to the gender Le manteau (masculine “le”) La veste (feminine “la”). Many languages have the same concordance between gender and adjectives.
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@BluePea@piefed.social 2026-09-09 06:09
Cut cut cut… WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING ENGLISH !?
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-09-09 14:50
Big complaints from someone with a language where the connection between the written text and its pronunciation can only be described as rather weak.
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@Hlodwig@lemmy.world 2026-09-10 06:22
Bruh its like spanish with -a or -o suffixes… In french you just add -e at the end (like brun/brune), in this case you have to add an h cause blance is ugly, so its blanche, and every word ending with a c is the same (sec/sèche for example). Pretty normal…
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@Siegfried@lemmy.world 2026-09-09 20:37
Ehm… this is super common
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@Lauchmelder@feddit.org 2026-09-10 07:31
Literally no natural language is perfectly regular