5 reasons English is (supposedly) weird

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It doesn't make weird, It makes it a little hard, More if your not a native-English-speaker

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Weird is not a scientific choice of words it's just something people can relate to. As you put it yourself, "weird" is just usually a non-native speaker's perception. The bottom line is that all languages are fascinating. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!

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🤣🤣🤣 that last dad joke lol I'm not sure which one made me laugh harder, the joke itself or because I had to process it for a while before I got the joke 😂

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[@deirdre108]

And of course the famous spelling of FISH--GHOTI !

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@@snaplanguage LOL! Much like asking Germans to say "squirrel".

[@theresaivy7045]

Question. Just because people are used to the oddities of a language, does that negate it being weird? I adore language and hope people will get back to using it in all it's glory. I'm a huge fan of Shakespeare and I know that it takes a while when first encountering his text, to get in the rhythm of reading it. Not only is his writing from a period of time that seems eons from today but he uses the Queen's English and he invented quite a few words of his own. Another encounter of this "problem" was my reading of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Written from the perspective of the people of the deep south in the early 1900's. Most people in the rural South were often poorly educated which lead words to be mispronounced and there were words particular to that region. So, some of it did sound, for lack of a better word , weird to me. One thing I do love about language is the debate that is sure to follow. That's always a good thing.

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Indonesian spelling almost same to Netherland Btw I'm your new subscriber

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Hi, thanks for subscribing! My understanding is that Indonesian has a lot of Dutch words, so it doesn't surprise me that Dutch spelling worked its way into the language as well. Terima kasih telah menonton videonya!! :D

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Interesting video, well researched and well presented. Of course, English English is different to American English and even English English can be inconsistent. Much of it is cross-fertilised with, or influenced by, other European languages, Anglo Saxon, Latin, Germanic and many others. It's true that it's a kind of 'mongrel' language. Countries have borders, but people don't always stay within those borders. Their motives can be many and varied, wars, oppression, political differences...or trading: take the 'silk road' along the Mediterranean area. Spelling is just a way of trying to explain the sounds of speech. Take Noah Webster's Blue Backed Book, for example. It was an attempt at consistency for school children to learn about American spelling at that time. Rush through history, passing the period when 'the South' was 'acquired' and the character and accents of those people were brought into, technically, American, we reach modern English as being the 'lingua franca' of most countries, certainly those who negotiate; politics, finance, trade, information, technology. What are really complex, sometimes, are metaphors, the hidden poetic references in phrases. I know a musician whose album title is beautiful, yet, to explain its beauty would somewhat destroy it. ("Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street" Album by Jon Hassell)

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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. This is true: "English English is different to American English." At the same time, there are many varieties within the UK and the US that can be different from each other, too. Language is a spectrum of regional varieties, and that makes it very interesting to me. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. -- Cheers! :D

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[@starknight103]

One reason people say English is a weird language is because English has dental fricatives( aka the th sound) which doesn't appear in most languages. What's your opinion on this statement.

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The TH-sound and also 14 vowels + diphthongs and triphthongs, a number of clusters, and other phonological processes that give it its "flavor." But all languages have their own quirks that make them sound unique. :) Thanks for watching and leaving a comment/question. I hope you're enjoying the other videos on the channel!

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P.S.: Besides the TH-sound, you don't find the retroflex R (the characteristic "American R") in most languages. (It's used in the UK, too, though people tend to associate it with American English)....

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@@snaplanguage Yeah most European languages like Spanish, Italian and Russian have the trilled R sound.

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In 2008, I got into a car accident. I developed an expressive aphasia. I couldn't figure-out our English irregular verbs and prepositions.

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