>>38458661>No retarded runesBut retarded spelling. America literally has spelling competitions. Pretty much everywhere, else being able to spell is just considered part of basic literacy. The only comparable thing I can think of are Kanji quizzes.
>grammar is simple and lenientWhat? English grammar is an absolute clusterfuck, because it's like half a dozen languages mashed together and the grammar rules make no sense. Just some things off the top of my head:
- You can say "I punched him", but not "him punched I"? Why do pronouns have cases when you don't get any of the advantages? Might as well just say "I punched he" and drop the word "him" from the language, since the meaning is determined by the word order anyway.
- Why is it "funnier" and "more important", but not "more funny" and "importanter"? Different adjectives have different rules for no reason.
- Why can you say "I bought an awesome new red sports car", but not "I bought a red new awesome sports car"? There are rules for adjective order, but good luck trying to memorize those as an ESL.
>no gendered language bsYou mean like, for nouns? Actress, stewardess, huntress...
>verbs are straightforwardPlenty of weirdness there. "Went" the past tense of "go", "read" is either present or past tense with different pronunciation, "could" is either present or past tense with the same pronunciation but different meanings... and while we're at ambiguity, what about all the overlap between noun, adjectives and verbs? "Abstract" can be all three, so can "quiet". "Tear" or "lead" mean completely different things depending on whether they're a noun or a verb, etc.
Oh and also, the vocab is huge. English is the only language I know that has different words for animals and their meats, for example. You got "cow" and "chicken" from German, but "beef" and "poultry" from french. Same with many other words like "drink" vs. "beverage".
>pronunciation makes absolutely no senseAnd that too.
I am euro and have it much easier than someone from jp, but even I can tell that English is not an easy language by any means.
