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Message: [QUOTE="Octopus, post: 31142, member: 4"] That's bizarre, I was literally just playing this game before I posted this. But yeah, this was a good read as a native 'Canadian' English speaker, just like [USER=13897]@Deebo[/USER] said. They always say English is the hardest language to learn for anyone non-native and that's because English is a historically and grammatically fucked language. There's so many contradictions in grammar with things that are usable only in specific circumstances. 'I before E except after C' except for those words that ignore that, and strange inconsistencies with plurals- why is the plural of box 'boxes' but the plural of ox 'oxen' instead of 'oxes'? It's because it's primarily stolen from other languages over its lifetime and smashed together and bastardized and then reformed again. Did you know that English started off from a Germanic dialect, got injected with Latin through Christianity which included changing its alphabet, got affected by Old-Norse by the Vikings (pretty common, they kinda got around), also borrowed liberally from several other Scandinavian languages (mainly Dutch but also some Norwegian), and then started adopting French words? It's a fascinating rabbit hole. The sentence 'buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' is a technically grammatically correct sentence with a few other words having been dropped over time. Sorry, I like talking about how messed up English is. In my neck of the Canadian woods, French is a secondary language so I kinda understand the concept of the struggle at least, as I can hardly speak any French despite having to take it all throughout school I don't think I ever will be able to learn it to even a simple conversation level. TL;DR- don't feel bad if you think English is hard to learn, the language is fucked up. [/QUOTE]

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