▲ 310 ▼ Non-smart smart move (thelemmy.club) submitted 2 months ago by Grumpus_Maximus to c/historymemes@piefed.social 97 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) all languages are clusterfucks, have you seen japanese? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Doesn't make it an excuse. If you want a language to be used universally, it must not be a clusterfuck. If it is a clusterfuck, it's easier to make excuses to not adopt the language. So it will fail in becoming a universal language. "Why would I learn English to communicate with you? You should learn Spanish to communicate with me! Since English has X and Y issues that Spanish doesn't have". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago Doesn't make it an excuse. If you want a language to be used universally, it must not be a clusterfuck. If it is a clusterfuck, it's easier to make excuses to not adopt the language. So it will fail in becoming a universal language. "Why would I learn English to communicate with you? You should learn Spanish to communicate with me! Since English has X and Y issues that Spanish doesn't have". permalink fedilink source parent