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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.


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Name: Anonymous 2009-08-10 17:58

>>57
Not true for all languages.
I understand this is the case for Korean, but not so in, for example, Spanish. In Spanish, it may be considered rude to address a stranger as "tú/vos" (varies from person to person. In general, young people don't mind). This type of linguistic politeness is less to maintain social class barriers and more to maintain distance from whom you're speaking to. The opposite is also true. You may want to close distance to make the other person feel more comfortable.
In Spanish, the polite conjugation is not about classes, but respect. For example, I wouldn't address a professor as "vos" unless we were friends outside of class or something. On the same vein, I wouldn't address a stranger who was considerably older than me with the familiar form.

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