It's becoming more common in English for people to say "whenever" when it should just be "when." It's like nails on a chalkboard when I hear it used wrong like that
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Honestly English has a lot of little things that I don't like about English but I can only imagine how you make the distinction between "Prinsesse pult i vinkel" and "prinsessepult i vinkel" when speaking and does that phenomenon effect other speaking situations at least with my home state our accent involves giving up on pronunciation halfway through the word so you can just listen for when centince has definition and transitions to mumbling to hear when one word ends and the other starts
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Why the fuck are the weekdays called "Second", "Third" and so on? Pretty stupid honestly.
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English.
When we use a new loan word that we already have a word for.
When companies refuse to regionalize products for American English despite our having far more native English speakers than the next three countries, two of which gave English as a secondary language. None of them is England - they're in 6th place.
The absurd number of accents and dialects. Fortunately the Internet is helping grind away at this part. Standardization helps prevent misunderstandings.
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I love that English has a way of marking nouns/verbs in a sentence but I hate that when written it's completely erased (although sometimes a comma can help) "The old man the ship" threw me for like 5 minutes before I realised that man can be a verb.
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Amazon has a fantastic course on languages that I've almost completed and it blew my mind. Just seeing it laid out, how languages evolved over time.
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All borrowed ( swiped? ) from French, as French changed. So we snagged the terms in mid-evolution :)
Did you know Hyrogliphs are sounds, to be read aloud just like the Roman Alphabet?!
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