/lit/ - Literature

>dangling participles

The only redeemable aspects of the english language are ebonics and that scene with the priest from Hunger

>>6481347
The knuckle dragging niggers that can't speak it properly

>>6481380
>The knuckle dragging niggers

hey, watch your mouth when you're talking about the scottish

>Spanish language thread on /lit/
>Portuguese language thread on /lit/
>followed by an anti-English language thread on /lit/

Why are spics so salty?

>>6481389
?
English really is a gross, barbaric tongue

you'd have to be monolingual to think otherwise

>>6481380
...still waiting on that predicate, anon...

>>6481399
Yet you're posting here.

>>6481330
>What kind of stuff do you hate about the English language?

OP using it.

> capitalizing the first person pronoun

This is why we can't have nice community.

>>6481330
>ITT: Esoteric Features of the English Language That I Don't Understand Suck

>>6481399
English, in its modern form, is derived from more outside influences than any other language. Additionally, English has produced more great literature than any other language. Borges himself acknowledged this fact.

>>6481500
that's why i dont

>>6481399
>yfw an English speaker is inherently a polyglot

>>6481330
>《施氏食狮史》
>石室诗士施氏,嗜狮,誓食十狮。
>氏时时适市视狮。
>十时,适十狮适市。
>是时,适施氏适市。
>氏视是十狮,恃矢势,使是十狮逝世。
>氏拾是十狮尸,适石室。
>石室湿,氏使侍拭石室。
>石室拭,氏始试食是十狮。
>食时,始识是十狮尸,实十石狮尸。
>试释是事。

>>6481416
underrated

>>6481616
It's sad that its most influential work is still a translation.

But sort of becoming, considering the nature of english itself.

I don't dislike the English language, but how in the holy fuck am I supposed to pronounce words ending in -ths like "months" without sounding retarded?

>>6481616

Sure lol.... fuck French, Italian, german... my goodness....

bait???

>>6481616
>English has produced more great literature than any other language

Haha, no. That would be French, mon ami.

>>6481793
bro, for those just pronounce the 'th' like a 't'. So instead of pronouncing it 'munths' just say 'munts'. You'll sound like a Jersey guido, but that's better than sounding like a retarded Swede.

>>6481616
>Borges
>not a hack

The predicate copulative. (It is I or It's me)
The dying who/whom distinction.
which/that
No contraction for "I am not"
Dying use of the subjunctive ("if I were you")

>>6481926
H-how did you know I was Swedish?

>>6481793
Native anglophoner here

I don't even say the 'th'. I just say "muns" with a hard "S" at the end like in the beginning of 'sounds'

>>6481387
>comments bashing the Scottish
>is ignored
>southern English cunting wanker detected

Those are bison, not buffallo.

>>6481793
I assume what you're having trouble with is the transition from "n" to "th." For the "n" sound, don't put your tongue against the roof of your mouth as you usually would, but instead put the tip against the edges of your front teeth (this produces a slightly different "n" sound than the regular one, but in a word like "months" it doesn't sound out of place -- in fact it's supposed to sound like that, it's how native speakers do it). That way you can smoothly transition from it to the "th" sound.

>>6481616

just because a lot of people speak it doesn't mean it's a good language

If English,as one of the top languages DIDN'T produce a ton of great writers then it'd be the language of gibbering retards

It's a chopped up language that was glued together with shit

>>6481330
The syntax is really restrictive, but other than that it's great.

>stupid comma splicing rules

Fuck you, English

The only metric of a spoken language is how many people speak it, the only metric of a written language is how many great works of literature are written in it.

Complaining that a language is hard to understand to people who didn't grow up speaking it (Surprise, they all are) or because it's spelling/grammar rules are inconsistent (surprise, all languages are the result of hundreds or thousands of years of blind evolution) is beyond retarded.

>>6481994
Lucky guess. You're question implied you were not a native English speaker. However, your writing style seemed very natural, like how a native speaker would write. 9 times out of 10 that indicates the poster is a Scandinavian, and there seem to be a lot more Swedes on here than Norwegians, so there you go.

pssh

>>6482238
>he hasn't even written a three page long sentence in english

>>6482285
Yes, but if we were going to be reasonable people that would make it really hard to act superior and pretentious.

>>6482627
krasznahorkai pls go

>>6481330
the orthography is abysmal. no excuse for this shit, really. Does an 'a' mean anything else than an 'a' sound in any other language?

>>6481330
Homonyms. Especially when you keep running into natives who still can't differentiate shit like:

It's / Its

You're / Your

Then / Than

Lose / Loose

>>6483042
>Homonyms

>>6483046
Your point? The plural is spelled correctly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym

>>6483049
from your link
>In non-technical contexts, the term "homonym" may be used (somewhat confusingly) to refer to words that are either homographs or homophones

dont be confuse, pal, write it correctly :^)

>>6481330
The in-periodic spelling and pronunciation rules.

>>6483042
Yeah. I was a vocal advocate of spelling reform until a professor showed me how many fucking words would be the same if we modeled the alphabet to be phonetic (shavian alphabet for example). It would turn english into a very difficult language to read, because it has so many homonyms and homophones. It'd put learning to read english on the level of Chinese

>>6483046
>>6483049

>t hen than
>lose loose
>pronounced the same

I guess I have BRAIN PROBLEMS

>>6481399
Spanish is uglier than English.

>>6483162

How?

>>6483035
la ortografía es abismal. no hay excusa para esta mierda, de verdad. ¿Tiene una 'y' quiere decir nada más que un sonido 'y' en cualquier otro idioma?

>>6482653
>thinking you're clever
Plenty of writers have done that.

>>6483166
Because I live in SoCal.
If I went to Spain or Argentina I might change my mind but as it stands the local Spanish is some of the worst shit I've ever heard.

>>6483183

English is the shittiest language ever
I live in Detroit and the local English is some of the worst shit I have ever heard

>all these people making these ridiculous claims when they don't know shit about linguistics nor have they taken a single linguistic class

Embarrassing. Thread: hidden

>>6483195

How desperate can you get?

Is English the only language with a CCCVCCC word?

>>6483183
Colombian & Cuban are the best...Spanish from Spain & Argentina are abominations. But yes, Mexican Spanish is plebian as fuck.

>>6481724
>mfw im the only based mandarin speaker that can read this "shi"t

>American Eng
>progress [praw-gres]
>progression [pro-gre-shun]
fuck this shit...no rules to pronunciation whatsoever.

>>6483035
"å" means river in danish

RHYTHM

CCCCCC

NOPE

>>6483209
Other Germanic languages have them (eg. German spritzt, Norwegian sprelsk)

>>6483209
No, e.g. german "Schacht" (shaft, duct) and french "stricts" (m. pl. of strict)
And those are only the languages I happen to know

>>6483435
Y is the vowel you retard.

>>6483488
>schact
Isn't that CCVCC?
The reason I asked is because someone on /int/ said that non-Indo-Europeans have trouble with Indo-European languages because of high vowel concentrations or something.

>>6481616
>English has produced more great literature than any other language
Well English is spoken by 3 important countries (UK, Ireland, US) so that's quite logical

>>6483180
>thinking you're clever
The same could be said about your first comment

>>6483913
>ireland
>important

>>6483924
>Swift, Yeats, Beckett, Joyce, Wilde, Sterne
>not important
Kill yourself

>>6483936
Sorry, I thought you meant in a geopolitical context. On /lit/.

>>6483145
>t hen than

That's just Americans, all their vowels sound the same.