▲ 1429 ▼ English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 359 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago* (3 children) is that like how you have to memorize every single articels (der, die, das) for every word in german? permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Muzle84@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* Exactly, gendered langage. But French has only two genders, no neutral like German. And the washing machine is a Lady, any machine btw :) permalink fedilink source parent [–] geissi@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago But at least pronunciation is mostly consistent. In English two words can be written almost exactly the same but sound wildly different. Looking at you, words with "ough" permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago And then there's the wars about der/die/das Nutella :> permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Muzle84@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* Exactly, gendered langage. But French has only two genders, no neutral like German. And the washing machine is a Lady, any machine btw :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] geissi@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago But at least pronunciation is mostly consistent. In English two words can be written almost exactly the same but sound wildly different. Looking at you, words with "ough" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago And then there's the wars about der/die/das Nutella :> permalink fedilink source parent
