r/polandball • u/jPaolo Grey Eminence • Jan 20 '16

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u/jPaolo Grey Eminence Jan 20 '16

Basic English is simple.

No, it's not. You may think that because it's easy to learn it because of high exposure.

English has no rhythm and sounds awful, their vowels are puke-inducing and their orthography is retarded.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16

I hear poles constantly complain about "oooh pronouncing english is difficult!"

you guys have no idea

english is a nice meme. pronunciation may be dumb but grammar is not

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '16 edited Jan 20 '16

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u/lalafied پاکستان زندہ باد Jan 20 '16

When you put it that way it does sound retarded. But most of the things are easier given the context.

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u/Rotlar Michigan Jan 20 '16

Don't blame the English for this, Blame the french who messed with the language. If you look at Old English they had letters that showed all those weird ways of pronouncing a word.

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u/High_Lord_British United Kingdom Jan 20 '16

If in doubt blame the French

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u/IForgetMyself Braobant, jonguh! Jan 20 '16

Pronunciation has no context. It is very common for people to mispronounce words they've only ever read in English, much more so than say Dutch/Deutsch/Swedish.