Why Is The English Language Stupid?

[Amake]

English is not my first language, and it was pretty easy to learn to read and write. All those thousand million words people apparently have trouble spelling because they sound like something else come naturally to me. ("Fish"? What the Hell?)

Hilarity would occur when I first tried to speak with native English speakers however.

[Osterbaum]

The swedish accent is so frickin' weird.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

As opposed to the German accent, which sounds so hot, it makes guys change their pants and women moan and squirm AND change their pants.

I found English to be rather easy to learn as well. Even though it was taught in school, I didn't really pay attention because my teachers, for some reason, always tried to fake a British accent. Sorry, I just couldn't take those seriously.

[Osterbaum]

They tought us british english at school mostly. But having learnt most of my english from movies etc. my accent became more american. Although with an obvious touch of finnish. I think I could fake it enough to not appear foreign if I travelled to the states, but that would require more careful thinking.

[Ecks]

I am rather disappointed that no one has officially noted the distinction between the different dialects of English. 300 years of separation and we're still lumped in together under "English.You now realize that Mexico and Spain are dealing with the same situation

They should go ahead and start calling it British English and American English.

I wish English weren't my first language. I hate it with a passion. The rules are fucking confusing to refer to (oh sure, I know the rules and use them because they've been ingrained in my head, but dammit if I can't really refer to them without needing a textbook), as opposed to other, far simpler to understand things like the other Romance languages.?And a couple of Eastern languages....

Je prefere le francais et l'allemand. Y yo hablo espanol tambien.

EDIT: I guess NPF is not compatible with Vista's Japanese language bar.

[Seil]

The swedish accent is so frickin' weird.

Kinda like this?

[Hanuman]

Here's a better question:
What's a LESS stupid language, explain your reasoning.
Personally I prefer Norwegian, example:
Har du brann?
HAVE YOU FIRE?
Jeg had brann her.
I HAVE FIRE HERE.

Awesome grammar, no do's or a's or clarification, just manliness.

[bluestarultor]

I used to be quite good with French before years of disuse made me start losing it something awful. I always liked the structure of it and because of learning some when I was very little, I can still speak it without an American accent with effort.

Basically, though, trying to read large chunks of it now gives me a headache and all I really use it for is singing "Yes, We Have No Bananas" for shiggles. If I had someone to speak it with, it might still be able to come back, but I don't.

[Amake]

Lojban is a very clever language. It might even be too clever for people to speak. But that's just cause it's made to make sense, unlike those languages people are saddled with from birth.

I doubt you could make very good poetry with it. . .

[Osterbaum]

Originally Posted by Seil

Kinda like this?

Not really. More like if you were speaking with a hot potato in your mouth and couldn't spit it out.