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>meet
>meat
>see
>sea
>to
>too
>there
>they're
>no
>know
Why is english so retarded

>> No.16960375

The Chads know the context.

>> No.16960381

>>16960368
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jtiw721RAg

Based. Fucking stupid English, I can't wait until Mandarin becomes the lingua franca of the next 1000 years.

>> No.16960463

Hold on 'till you hear about homonyms or, god forbid, homographs.

>> No.16960487

>>16960463
Based >>16960368
>spring
>spring
>address
>address

>> No.16960502

>>16960368
>OP
>OP
>is
>is
>a
>a
>faggot
>faggot
wow so retarded

>> No.16960510

French is just as bad.

>> No.16960514

>>16960368
>>there
>>they're
these aren't even similar
nor is they're and their

>> No.16960521

>>16960510
fuck french
fuck english
german
arabic
spanish
russian
bengali
best languages

>> No.16960526

The English language was created by poets, a five-hundred year enterprise of emotion and metaphor, the richest dialogue in world literature. French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisian intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

>> No.16960541

>>16960526
English is the most unpoetic language

>> No.16960567

>>16960510
Seau
Sot
Sceau
Saut
So-rry, what do you mean? English has difficulties but a few words sounding alike isn't that bad.
I had
I had had
I had had had
Now that's some shit. Also good luck to my esl ass for not making mistake when talking about a huge green car - not a green huge car.

>> No.16960800

>>16960526
English can be a very beautiful language, but only when used correctly. Only the greats did it, and today it's almost impossible. The poetic parts of English come from French.

>> No.16960811

>>16960368
It's all an elaborate prank on the ESLs. Sorry for party rocking.

>> No.16960813

>>16960567
For example, if you say "sea of shit" in French it sounds the same as saying "shit shit" or "sea of sea of". There are a bunch more examples like that.

>> No.16960814
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16960814

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

>> No.16961175

Literally the simplest language in existence, except maybe Persian. The major reason we don't have great literature anymore. Speaking English literally dumbs down the brain. The greatest writers in English (Melville, Conrad etc.) were not even native and they took their complex syntaxic brains and made it into something highter. Then American "cultural hegemony" came along and every three words were interrupted with "like" and "you know". Awful.

Trumpesque American English is probably the lowest complexity of language anyone ever spoke. God have mercy on our great European culture.

>> No.16961188

>>16961175
higher*

>> No.16961207

>>16961175
I was agreeing with you until you used this word:
>Trumpesque
Now i know you're a 80 iq retard. Read a book.

>> No.16961224

>>16960368
All of those are pronounced differently. The difference is subtle but it's there.

>> No.16961238

>>16960368
>to
>too
You forgot "two"

>> No.16961248

>>16961224
No they aren't; they're pronounced exactly the same.

>> No.16961251

>>16961207
My superior Germanic brain does not give a shit about your unfamiliarity with simple suffixes, turbo nerd American

>> No.16961277

>>16960567
>Also good luck to my esl ass for not making mistake when talking about a huge green car - not a green huge car.
"Huge green car" is correct. "Green huge car" is wrong.

>> No.16961278

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

>> No.16961308

>>16961175
>The greatest writers in English (Melville, Conrad etc.) were not even native
Melville was a native English speaker.

>> No.16961335

Anti-Anglo posters will look at the complex orthography of languages like Japanese and call you an idiot if you have any difficulty with it, but when they have difficulty with the much simpler issue of English spelling, they use it as an occasion to insult English rather than recognize their own incompetence. Very telling.

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16961422

>>16961175
>>16961175
>Literally the simplest language in existence, except maybe Persian.
You poor naive fellow.

>> No.16961466

>>16961335
Well it is the mother tongue of the Master Race, after all. Jealousy breeds contempt.

>> No.16961509

>>16961335
Japanese is dumb too

>> No.16961522

>>16960368
>hung
>hanged
>completely different

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16961580

>>16961251
Im a real german, are you ? Faggot

>> No.16961583

>>16961522
woah different words mean different things wtf!!!

>> No.16961595

>>16961583
You mean that one verb has two different past tenses, but you're too stupid to articulate this.

>> No.16961609

>>16961580
>t. middle easterner

>> No.16961644
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16961644

>>16961580
>bless-you card

>> No.16961656

>>16961609
You're one seething faggot holy shit.

>> No.16961661

>>16960381
Changs will be nuked to glass by 2040.

>> No.16961663

>>16961595
That they are conjugated forms is meaningless. They don't mean the same thing.

>> No.16961699

>>16960381
>bzzzzzz bzzz bzzzzz
>NO ME NO FUCKING INSECT U WHITU FUCK
>>16960368
bad examples but true. english sucks. just listen to them tryin to pronounce in any romace lingua and cringe

>> No.16961711

>>16960510
you are right, it's actually much worse because it has retarded grammatics

>> No.16961727

>>16961663
Of course they don't mean the same thing, despite both being the past tense of hang. Congratulations, you rode around in a circle back to my original point. Gold star for you

>> No.16961731

>>16961699
>just listen to them tryin to pronounce in any romace lingua and cringe
Let me know when Euroshits can pronounce English fluently and we'll talk.

>> No.16961773

>>16961699
People such as yourself do not realize that your pronunciation of English is grating and horrible, but no one points it out because we don't care if some foreigner can't pronounce our language correctly, because we don't have a massive inferiority complex like you do.

>> No.16961786

>>16960368
If you think English is bad wait till you learn about French.

>> No.16962298

>>16961188
*hire!

>> No.16962413

>>16961609
>56%

>> No.16962423

>>16961644
have fun with obamacare lmao

>> No.16962488
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16962488

Obligatory. Step it up Kraut, you're lagging behind

>> No.16962569

Nom Akk Dat Gen
Mas der den dem des
Fem die die der des
Neut das das dem der
Plural die die den der
Think English is retarded?

>> No.16962582

>>16960368
>page 17
>protagonist still talks shit about himself/herself
>you still don't know if it's him or her because verbs and adjectives have same form for men/women/things
>protagonist meets Casey
>you don't know if Casey has penis or vagina
RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.16962614

>>16962423
I just thought the name of your insurance card was funny. I'm extremely envious of your system.

have fun destroying gesundheit-care by giving it away to freeloading Turks and niggers lmao

>> No.16962624

>>16962614
p.s. I'm not actually lmao

>> No.16962703

Christ, just ban non-Anglophone countries from posting already. Without ESL monkeys the quality of every board will skyrocket.

>> No.16962715

>>16960487
>Spring
>Spring
Huh?

>> No.16962847

>>16962703
but you will be allowed to discuss only anglophone books then