well grammar.
(j/k, and in that case should I have said grammer mayhaps? :-P)
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GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 days agoIronically it is generally the anglosphere who sucks at their grammar. Since native speakers mostly learn it by speaking and listening they have a harder time with those they’re, there, their situations, while everyone else learns it as a second language, primarily through reading and writing. The latter is obviously better suited for good grammar.
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 days ago
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 days ago
I have also heard that English is actually a pretty hard language as well, it has so many goofy nuances like your, you’re, or there, their, they’re. Or words with different meanings like the whole Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Bufalo thing.
Jako302@feddit.org 2 days ago
I have also heard that English is actually a pretty hard language as well, it has so many goofy nuances like your, you’re, or there, their, they’re.
Your and you’re as well as there, their and they’re are completely different words that just happen to sound similar. Differentiating them is easy if you take a second to think about their meaning. This isn’t something unique to english, false friends exist in every language.
English is a weird case in terms if difficulty. The language itself is fairly easy to learn since it has a relatively small ruleset compared to other european languages. There are no special characters, conjugation is fairly consistent over different tenses and nouns have no gender to memorise.
The biggest problem with english is that it has not enough consistency in regards to spelling and pronunciation. The best analogy I’ve seen is that the english vocabulary feels kinda vibe-coded. There technically are established rules, but each rule has so many exceptions that you might as well forget about them entirely.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
English is three languages in a trench coat. Each of those languages is multiple languages and trench coat!
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Native speakers of any language tend to not give a fuck about homophones. It can vary a bit exactly what between languages. But every language has plenty of things that native speakers just do not actually give a fuck about. Language doesn’t need to be remotely perfect to do its job after all.
Its almost always foreign speakers who learned to do it right that get upset. Since to many having to put in the work to learn things the right way makes them angry when they watch someone just get things wrong that would have gotten them yelled at.
The rest of the time it’s bigots getting pissy you arnt speaking “right” and attacking your language skills is little more then a stand in for racism, sexism or other hate.
Enjoy the misused words.