English is a very inefficient language and you know it

English is a very inefficient language and you know it.

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Wrong, but bump anyway for the rare flag.

I think the pronunciation is annoyingly convoluted and inconsistent. Other than that it's quite easy to learn

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you doing alright over there man?

171,000-1,100,000 words, 10-26 vowel phonemes depending upon accent allowing massive room in pronunciation, no diacritics allowing for active interpretation pronunciation, basic grammar and phonology structure similar to other Germanic languages and Latin languages, Latin alphabet, little to no inflection, simple syntax with loose rules. It's one of the most flexible and broadly applicable languages in the world, such that it becomes more efficient to just learn English as a lingau franca than it is to learn 4-5 other languages used interchangeably.

Being easy to learn is pretty much the only thing it got going for it. But for reading/speaking it's inefficient since you got all these empty words.

No. Half my office immigrated. I'm here because I just started here.

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try german, much worse. still can't believe we use gendered language for fucking objects.

do you know literally anything about linguistics

there's no such thing as an inefficient language. there's no way to measure such a bullshit metric. i prefer to look at purity. english is full of (consists of) unnecessary gallicisms and latinisms.

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>But for reading/speaking it's inefficient since you got all these empty words
Only if your brain thinks in ESL.

What language as efficient then?

You probably mean "emigrated".

Every time I have to translate an operating manual into English I weep. English is a terrible language for technical documentation

>we use gendered language for fucking objects.
How does that work user? Do you have pronouns for a chair or a table? I always wondered about it.
Yes, that.

We've been through this before, common use native English speakers use approximately 70% OE vocabulary, Germanic phonology, syntax, and grammar. Dictionary English absorbs any language into it for specific topics which is why depending upon dictionary it may have as few as 100k words to over 1 million words.

Sorry about the chaos in your country.

This, it ruins English poetry for me.
Basically Beowulf is the only English poem Ive read that is good.
Not to mention that the English gave up on using rhythm and rhyme since their language doesn't make sense anymore.

How about Sinhara? It's even more inefficient than English and Mandarin or something

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You probably could measure how efficient a language is by comparing how long it takes to transfer the same amount of meaning. I think I saw that Chinese, vietnamese and other tonal languages were the most efficient.

i would gladly do that user but sadly i have no idea how i would be able to translate it in a litteral sense.

Isn't "girl" neuter in your language?

English is discount bootleg latin, what did you expect?

It takes longer to write or read a paragraph in English since you got words like "the" or "a' in it. Why does it need it? It doesn't. It makes perfect sense without them.

>inefficient language
Nani kore wa?

>It takes longer to write or read a paragraph in English
... If you're a barely literate idiot maybe

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it's one of the most efficient,idiot
not as much as german but still

Strictly speaking, we don't need those words, but they're still useful to have. Most European languages have them. Their usage is sometimes slightly different from in English, but the basic distinction is the same.

Sinhala is phonetic. What you write is how you read it. Unlike English.

every noun has a grammatical gender assigned to it for it to function in the german language. When referring to said noun in the third person it is referred to as he/she/it according to the gender that it has. While grammatical gender probably started out as being applied regularly, over thousands of years of language development it ended up being really mostly random nowadays.

>it ended up being really mostly random nowadays
So you have to keep in mind all of them? That's rough
user, it takes time for the words to come out of your mouth and even more for you to write it on a piece of paper. Just get rid of them

>common
>use
>native
>approximately
>vocabulary
>Dictionary
>absorbs
>language
>specific
>topics
>depending

don't bullshit me and tell me all of these words are hyper-technical rare words that no one uses in daily speech