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Me venting about native english-speakers

Before, my maximum respect to W. Shakespeare, L. Carroll and other artists. Let them out of it.

  1. Americans: i would be American too, because America is a continent. Then, a semi-communist guy proposed call them "USonians", clearing the ambiguous language.

  2. My worst problem in english is adjective position: "a guy tall fat... oh, no... a tall fat guy" (swapping constantly adjectives position at writing). You can't imagine the wasted time for this cause, but I'm not blaming you.

  3. "El/La... spanish is so weird". Seriously? did you see your language?

"Ella me quiere" - "She loves me" (not I)

"Yo soy querido por ella" - "I am (be)loved by her" (not she)

"Yo la quiero [a ella]" - "I love her" (not she again)

NOTE: "She/her" vs "Ella/ella"

* Trans person appears*

"Tell me they/them" (eh? plural noun for single person??? you lost me)

  1. Dog (me: ๐Ÿ™Žโ€โ™‚๏ธdogo or ๐Ÿ™Žโ€โ™€๏ธdoga?)

male dog/female dog ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ perro/perra

little male dog/little female dog ๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ perrito/perrita

๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿคฆ

NOTE: english language struggle so much for merge common pieces, it put adverbs and things before noun without worries (it implies that they never thought in this problematic)

  1. "spanish is not gender friendly"

No, I fix it: "people is not gender friendly"

Spanish language is so flexible, you can do:

"elle" (el+ella)

"le" (not elegant "el"+"la" but possible)

It is the LGBT community but not mainstream, they replace to E all of A/O letters.

perro/perra/perre

LAST THING:

I'm not "a language nazi" but I am pointing you that your language is not perfect, like certain delirious guys believe. You must be thankful that you don't need learn another language to communicate internationally but don't abuse.

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[โ€“] naeap@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Native German speaking here:
I find English much easier than Spanish.
In Spanish the information is just transferred into the verb, so it's just encoded another way.

I don't see much difference here, but it's harder for me to learn, because my language is structured differently

Edit: completely forgot about the meme while reading the post text...
Well, yeah, that was what we actually hoped for. But probably the correct bird would be the drunken on riped fruit ones