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eh, what makes Russian harder than other languages
yo I saw what old Russian looked like once and it looked like Dr who language. goddamn so pretty. I want letters to look like geometric shapes only. where's masonry language yo
heard some polish tiktok rapping or tongue teaser once. just what
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@jestdotty cases I suppose. Many languages don't feature cases and various suffixes and ending dependent on cases
The worst "cases" offender is Finnish. It has somewhere around 14 of them while russian has only 6 or 7
Finns told me to not attempt to learn their language unless I am going to relocate to Finland, because it's hard and no one needs it outside of Finland -
@blindXfish yeah, only russian mentioned, no Bulgarian or other cyrilic langs.. well I'm not suprised at all ;)
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@retoor sowieso een rus, merk je wel uit de onzin die eruit komt
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@Tayo why does dutch feel like if you took an English sentence, destroyed it with a blender, and threw it out from the window from the 11th floor? Like I'm reading assembly backwards. 😀 No offence, I like it.
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@blindXfish because it's pretty much what Dutch is lol, a blended up mix of all the languages around us with a mainly German influence
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@retoor 🤔 misschien ben ik achterlijk maar ik snap je reactie totaal niet lmao
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@iiii I was forced to learn French in Canada. you had to copy 50+ cases for every verb from books... for years...
pretty sure there were 200 cases just the others weren't regularly used
I thought it was so stupid. especially since in French when you speak you basically don't say the last few letters of words for whatever reason -
@antigermgerm - Ask chad:
Bulgarian has lost many Slavic features (like noun cases) and absorbed heavy Turkic and Greek influences, especially during the Ottoman era.
Serbian has preserved more of the original Slavic grammar, including cases and aspect usage, and is phonetically closer to Old Church Slavonic.
Winner: Serbian, in terms of grammar and closeness to Proto-Slavic. -
@jestdotty wat? The fuck? How there can be so many at all
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@blindXfish bullshit. Serbs are just makedonians albanese.
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1. English:
Hello, how are you?
Perfection...
There is a very good reason why the Internet is written in English and not Chinese.
2. Spanish:
Hola, ¿cómo estás?
Funny ass language. Beautiful women tho.
3. Chinese (Simplified):
你好，你怎么样？ (Nǐ hǎo, nǐ zěnme yàng?)
Ugly, disgusting and retarded. Honestly, you could create letters and then use the letters for words. Instead of creating new letter for every new word. You could really see they didn't really think this through. It started with simple characters, 一二三人. Then they hit scaling problem pretty quick. The problem is that they still use this ancient letters.
4. Japanese:
こんにちは、お元気ですか？ (Konnichiwa, ogenki desu ka?)
Actually, looks and sounds beautiful. But they still use the fucking Chinese letters.
I guess it's not as bad.
5. Korean:
안녕하세요, 어떻게 지내세요? (Annyeonghaseyo, eotteoke jinaeseyo?)
Cute. Extra points for getting rid of Chinese letters from their system.
6. Russian:
Привет, как дела? (Privet, kak dela?)
Great, but fucking hard ass language.
7. Arabic:
مرحبًا، كيف حالك؟ (Marhaban, kayfa halak?)
Can't comprehend shit.
8. Hindi:
नमस्ते, कैसे हो? (Namaste, kaise ho?)
I'll be honest. It looks cool.
9. Greek:
Γειά σας, πώς είστε; (Yia sas, pos iste?)
Chad as fuck. But still looks ugly.
10. Hebrew:
שלום, מה שלומך? (Shalom, ma shlomcha?)
Looks cool, like YuGiOh n shit.
11. Thai:
สวัสดี, สบายดีไหม? (Sawasdee, sabai dee mai?)
Crazy, it looks exactly as it sounds. Ding dong ping diong.
12. Vietnamese:
Xin chào, bạn khỏe không? (Xin chào, bạn khỏe không?)
Their Guerrilla warfare was genius. The language is fucking shit tho.
13. Tamil:
வணக்கம், எப்படி இருக்கீர்கள்? (Vaṇakkam, eppaṭi irukkīrkaḷ?)
Adding this to UNICODE is a disrespectful.
14. Bengali:
হ্যালো, আপনি কেমন আছেন? (Hyālō, āpni kēmōn āchēn?)
Cool awesome.
15. Punjabi:
ਹੈਲੋ, ਤੁਸੀਂ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਹੋ? (Hello, tusīṁ kivēṁ hō?)
Cool.
16. Turkish:
Merhaba, nasılsınız?
17. Polish:
Cześć, jak się masz?
Sounds like retool. Yikes.
18. Swahili:
Habari, hujambo?
19. Ukrainian:
Привіт, як справи? (Pryvit, yak spravy?)
Just speak Russian. Fuck this sublanguage.
20. Georgian:
გამარჯობა, როგორ ხარ? (Gamarjoba, rogor khar?)
Emm.
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