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#1 May 13, 2015 4:10 PM
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I think English is the greatest language in the world
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#2 May 13, 2015 8:31 PM
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Re: I think English is the greatest language in the world
The origin of English is interesting. You're half correct. Originally, the language was indeed that of the Germanic Anglo-Saxon tribes, but it evolved to have some French influence after the Normans led by William the Conqueror invaded.
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#3 May 18, 2015 7:53 AM
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The Internet is primarily English from what I can gather. Heck, it was invented by English speakers.
So if a language owns the Internet does it really own the world?
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#4 May 18, 2015 8:23 AM
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I doubt that English is so commonly using in the Internet just because it was made in the US. No, I think that the reason that English is so commonly used is the fact that it's fairly easy to learn and understand in general. Plus there are many countries that have English as their official language, so the language is; 1) easy to learn, 2) many countries use it as their official language, 3) a lot of speak it.
If you'd compare English to Russian in terms of studying it, you'd know that English can be mastered by living couple of years in countries like UK or US, but with Russian.. Oh man, people can live 10 or more years in Russia yet they still will make a lot of mistakes, due to a huge amount of rules that the language has, and sometimes these rules don't even make any sense whatsoever.
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#5 May 18, 2015 2:20 PM
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#6 May 18, 2015 11:22 PM
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English does have a lot of weird rules, but one thing that does make it easier to learn than other languages is the lack of gendered nouns. Memorizing all the different words for "the" and having to conjugate them was kind of a pain when I was learning German.
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#7 May 19, 2015 1:42 PM
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Iz now rite? Engrish is da bom fo ani 1
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