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Why your language sucks

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-23 13:27

Chinese and Japanese
Hey, guess what? Advanced societies stopped using ideograms three thousand years ago and for a very good reason: It's fucking stupid having to learn one symbol for each word. Get yourselves a fucking alphabet, you savages.
Chinese has the added retardedness that it can be ambiguously written in either direction.

English
The only thing more stupid than a language with ideograms, is a language with incomplete verbs.
Why is there no way to know if the written word "read" is in the present, past, or participle?
Why is there no past, future, or infinitive tenses for "can"?
And I can't forget the lack of distinction between singular and plural second persons.


Feel free to add more to the list.

Name: Anonymous 2009-07-24 19:04

>>16
Pfft. That's child's play.
Spanish:
Fui a Londres - I went to London
Iba a Londres - I was going to London
He ido a Londres - I have gone to London
Había ido a Londres - I was going to London
Hube ido a Londres - (I can't even translate this. I don't know what it means. The Spanish Wikipedia says it's an immediate future to a past.)
...que fuera/fuese a Londres... - ...that I had gone to London...
...que haya ido a Londres... - ...that I had gone to London...
Hubiera/Hubiese ido a Londres - I would have gone to London

And these are just the pasts. And there are quite a few irregular verbs.
You can thank the Romans for this.

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