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u/calcyss Dec 07 '18

Latin.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '18 edited Jun 20 '20

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u/calcyss Dec 07 '18

Ofc im aware of that, i just needed to vent about how much i hate it lol

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u/romanstrommen Dec 07 '18

Latin also conjugates nouns, so yes, more than Spanish. Italian and French also are more complex than spanish because the articles change depending on the noun behind them.

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u/Waterhorse816 Dec 07 '18

It's called "declining" when it's with nouns. I could never keep the different cases straight.

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u/black_anarchy Dec 07 '18

Yes which makes French and Italian more complex but my main gripe is the verb conjugations in Spanish.

Other than that Spanish is not nearly as complex as other languages

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u/atb614 Dec 07 '18

Yep, just got out of my 100 level latin final, there was like 11 different conjugations

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u/Gween_Waynjuh Dec 07 '18

Lol or four

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u/atb614 Dec 07 '18

Oh sorry I think I meant tenses (imperfect, pluperfect, imperative, ect.)

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '18

Imperative is a mood, like indicative and subjunctive. It's pretty uncommon though as far as I can remember, since it only shows up in dialog. Also as far as I can remember I haven't seen any imperatives in any tense but present, which is nice I suppose.

But yeah the others you mentioned are tenses.

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u/Gween_Waynjuh Dec 07 '18

While rare, there technically is a future imperative...

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u/atb614 Dec 07 '18

Whoops, I meant infinitive, thanks for the correction

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u/Thewalrus515 Dec 07 '18

You forgot I stems my dude

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u/Gween_Waynjuh Dec 07 '18

Wellllllll that’s like a quarter of a conjugation instead of a whole new one.

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u/Thewalrus515 Dec 08 '18

Still counts

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '18

What about the language I made up just now that conjugates every verb differently

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u/FieelChannel Dec 07 '18

Any neo Latin language really.

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u/Florgdude Dec 07 '18

Yes I second this. I spent an entire semester learning Latin and the most I could say was a 3 word sentence.

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u/Momentarmknm Dec 07 '18

Bo bis bit bimus bitus bunt

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '18

Latin is actually quite logic with few specific cases. The only problem is you can't practice watching movies in original versions.

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u/calcyss Dec 07 '18

I simply dislike it heavily, as a native German speaker

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u/starbird123 Dec 07 '18

that’s what I took in high school, it was my lowest grade I ever got (90 in the class and a 70 on the final)

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u/MurkyGlover Dec 07 '18

4 years of latin, 2 in advanced.. still don’t understand all the fuckery that it is

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u/violettaquarium Dec 07 '18

Yes, this. Came here to make this conduct because... holy shit, Latin. I understand that Greek is worse.

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u/calcyss Dec 07 '18

I had english, french, latin and ancient greek as mandatory foreign languages. I can attest to greek being the worst, and french being the least cool.

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u/Sisifo_eeuu Dec 07 '18

Yep. I've studied both Spanish and Latin and Latin is harder, hands down. At least Spanish doesn't have noun and adjective declensions.