Does anybody else also think that the English language is weird?

[OlegL]

Does anybody else also think that the English language is weird? The reason I find English weird is because I can't express myself in it. English has so many words and I don't know many of them. So, English is a weird language simply because I can't express myself when I speak English. For example, why does English have the indefinite and definite article? Why must I say, "I am a man" instead of saying, "I am the man"? I think I am THE man, given the fact that all women want me in bed.

[Recursacro]

The English language is full of anomalies and loopholes. In my opinion, that's what makes it fun to learn. For example: Why would one park in a driveway, and drive in a parkway?

As for your comment on being the world's alpha male...

[JPaul]

What the fuck is a parkway.

[Recursacro]

What the fuck is a parkway.

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

Google's your friend.

[IdolEyes787]

I thought it was two Canadians discussing whether or not their car would fit into a spot or not.


" Park? Way?"

[JPaul]

What the fuck is a parkway.

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

Google's your friend.

In the United States, Parkways are defined as follows:

1. A type of road
1. A broad landscaped thoroughfare; especially : one from which trucks and other heavy vehicles are excluded.
2. A roadway in a park : a landscaped thoroughfare connecting parks
3. An expressway located on a strip of land legally constituting a public park and therefore not open to heavy vehicles
2. A landscaped strip of land between a thoroughfare and its sidewalk (see Tree lawn) or running in the center of a thoroughfare (see Central reservation}

I thought this was about English, not American English. If people can't understand that, which is made up as they go along, they have no chance with a proper language.

[Jerusalem]

English is a strange conglomeration of German, Latin, French and Nordic languages.

Hell yeah it's weird.

[cinephilia]

shitty language if you ask me.
funny how you just need to add a preposition to those "overused" verbs to change their meaning...

[zedaxax]

no worries mate, chinese or urdu will be our mother tongue.

[Skiz]

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