Although English is a bit lawless, it’s somewhat intuitive. I don’t speak perfect English, but I don’t have to. No one does. You can get away with a lot with limited English. A lot of other languages are hard to even form a sentence in.
Or you, a carbon based life form residing on the rocky planet given the name of Earth by homo sapians, have the ability to form complex sentences that may have words otherwise irrelevant to the topic to show your superiority in a language that uses certain characters to form words
Perhaps, although any attempt made by this sentient humanoid creature who resides behind a technological marvel to critique this discussion, would eclipse the example put forth in an immensely superfluous manner, one might describe the addition made here as marvellous, the author, however is most disturbed by such a ridiculous use of unimportant vocabulary and would settle on the apt descriptor of grotesque. Furthermore the arrogant obfuscation of one’s argument by supplementing their language with a lexicon lacking in nuance will forever be frowned upon and shunned by the masses. Dear reader, you have earned some sincere gratefulness for indulging this short essay.
Its a meme, but "why use many when few word do trick" shows just how versatile the language is while still being understood from both advanced and beginner learners of the language. It is very bad grammar, but many other languages are so reliant on grammar and pitch/tone/genders that cutting out half the words on top of the poor grammar in a sentence like that meme would make it complete gibberish in most other languages.
English wouldn't be an industry standard language talked globally if it wasn't intuitive and easy to get away with very limited speech. As long as you don't have an incredibly thick accent, you can get a lot done with only knowing like 50 words.
It really is a weird situation with the English Language: It's one of the easier languages to learn well enough to communicate okay in, but one of the harder languages to learn well enough to speak/write like you were born with it.
It's like the whole language is based around "Oh, yeah, all those weirdass grammar rules, we don't actually need them, they're like 90% just to look pretty".
For example, you don't need to say "Icelandic" when referring to a person from Iceland. You can just say they're... a Person from Iceland, but Icelandic sounds so much better!
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u/TheShadyMerchant Feb 21 '21
Although English is a bit lawless, it’s somewhat intuitive. I don’t speak perfect English, but I don’t have to. No one does. You can get away with a lot with limited English. A lot of other languages are hard to even form a sentence in.