why english is sometimes considered to be a stupid language?
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I also think that way...\n\nWell have u ever wondered why there is not a single alphabet  for the "sh" as in shine, or "ph" in Philadalphia, \n\nwhy there is need of the silent alphabets in different words ... like t in listen...?\n\nWhy there are 2 words for single meaning, or why there are so many meanings for one word?\n\nwhy the spelling for Psychology is not sykology???\nOr for Physics, it is "fiziks"\netc...\nLikewise there are thousands of things that are ununderstand able....\n\nSo isn't it a stupid language???\n\nBy the way it is the language that GAYS speak.\nAs in all England....
1044983
Why should we be annoyed? English is not the only language in the world! Nor is it the most widely spoken.\n\nI notice that you have asked at least one question in a language that befits your name, which is a very pretty French one.\n\nI suspect that you are playing Devil's Advocate ;)
1037386
YOUR LANGUAGE IS SILLY!
531760
It is a desecration to the English language declared to be a language in order to avoid learning English.
1136579
It's not that English is a crazy language.\n\nEnglish has borrowed many of its words from other languages.  About 40% of English is actually French, derived from Latin.\n\nTherefore, the words it has borrowed will follow the rules of the language.\n\n"Moose" is an Abenaki-derived word for "elk."  Abenaki is a Native American language and ethnic group.\n\n"Goose" is an Indo-European words, from "ghans," though not from Latin.
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People think that because they are on the Internet they don't have to spell things properly or edit what they have written.\n\nI've seen so many misspelled words and poor syntax on Yahoo Questions, and it's not just from EAASL (English As A Second Language) speakers.\n\nAlso some people think it's cool to hax0r talk.  Bunch of Un-l33t bastages if you ask me.
237098
Because grammar is part of the language people need to learn. If we don't use correct grammar, everyone would be talking all funny.
305598
Stupid is as stupid does. That just does not work. Your mistakes in life do not show for years and years sometimes. You feel that others are ignorant and as you grow, you find how wrong and ignorant you are.
44770
Stupid is as stupid does.
521818
I find it annoying that most people are too lazy to speak or write any kind of English properly. Give it a couple of decades and they will probably be teaching SMS shorthand grammar in schools.
40593
Two reasons, in my opinion:\n1. English spelling is inconsistent, and does not match the pronunciation of the words.\n2. Good spelling comes with reading a lot of high-quality writing. People don't do this any more.
1008789
The complex linguistic nature of language, especially english, being the most difficult language in the world to learn as a second language, makes it very difficult to create a program that determines whether a sentence makes sense, and given that a sentence can make sense to one person and not another makes it difficult to even define parameters within which the program would operate. I have made several mistakes in this answer alone, both grammatical and linguitically, but that is how I communicate, and the way that makes the most sense to me, despite the mistakes. Perhaps my individuality and uniqueness is expressed through my mistakes, and therefore to eliminate those mistakes would change my language tone and emphasis to becomeing more mainstream, all for the sake of being colloquially correct. I prefer to hang on to my unique mannerisms, precisely because they are warped and twisted. Thats me, expressing myself through the power of word and phrase, tone and emphasis.
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because english is crazy! I got a couple more:\nThere is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England nor french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? =20\n\nIn what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another? When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.\n\nAnd why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this answer, I end it?
125191
I used to think that Hispanic people were stupid because they couldn't speak English the way that I did. Now as an adult, trying to learn Spanish, I had no idea just how SMART they were: in a new country, learning a new culture and a new language. English is almost the hardest language to learn since it has words from almost every other language. Ignore negative people. Some people have to put other down to raise themselves up.
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Because its artificial. No one speaks it as a native tongue, so those of us who are too lazy to learn a second language (and there are a lot of us) keep our native languages in play.
487902
Why are people stupid?
571574
It's not bad. In fact, I think we all should learn at least the basics of another language. Whoever said that statement is kind of, well, an idiot.