The grammar is fucking horrible.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:44, archived)

I like german grammar,
It's got VERY STRICT RULES, JA, SIE MUST OBEY THE RULES OF DAS DEUSTCH, OR SUFFER ZE GERMAN WRATH"
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:47, archived)

Arggh, too many cases, I hated it.
It didn't help that my German teacher was a cunt.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:50, archived)

I fucking hated my german teacher,
but I've started learning it on my own after that, as I like the language.

I will buy Rosetta stone as soon as I get the money.
( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:51, archived)

Out of all the languages I learnt, Latin had the most convoluted grammar.
I am told classical Greek is considerably worse.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:52, archived)

Inuit has like 46 words for "there", according to QI.

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:53, archived)

Inuit / Eskimo vocabulary 'facts' are almost never true.
Here's why: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_language#Morphology_and_syntax
( Zuowan, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:15, archived)

The romans they go the house?

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:53, archived)

Aaargh! Not the dative! Not the dative!

( mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:57, archived)

I fucking hated Latin
Proper hated it
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:05, archived)

My mum went to the Dutch equivalent of a grammar school, and had to learn classical Greek as well.
According to her, Greek irregular verbs nearly induced a nervous breakdown.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:09, archived)

My twin brother did o level ancient greek in two terms because he had some time spare after doing 5 of them a year early, the swotty cunt
I'm not sure he understood a word of it, just he's very good at remembering stuff.
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:11, archived)

I love Latin, I wish they had still done it when I was in school.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:54, archived)

Same here
I think it would be ace to learn.
( Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:56, archived)

I'm very fucking glad they didn't.
I had enough trouble trying to get a grip of irish AND german.
( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:10, archived)

Is Irish very complicated?
I've got a book of Flann O'Brien's old newspaper columns, and there's a whole section on the then-recently revived Irish language and literature (a substantial part of it is written in Irish); according to him, it's one of the most complex European tongues.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:14, archived)

I gathered Latin was really very logical,
although very different from English in some ways.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:54, archived)

It is very logical, but as English is from a different family of languages it can seem quite alien - not to mention hideously complicated.
You can have a four-word Latin sentence that looks quite unambiguous, but depending on the combination of cases and tenses used it might have a wide range of meanings. For that reason alone, I remember it was a real pain in the arse.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:58, archived)

It's got a lot of features that tend to disappear naturally if a language is left to its own devices,
such as semantic noun inflections. The evolution of creoles tends to favour word order based grammar, such as we have in English, I think.

I like the way Semitic languages work.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:00, archived)

It's my contention that the more sophisticated a culture becomes the simpler its language becomes

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:10, archived)

up to a point.
someone drew a graph of it for me once.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:11, archived)

If there's a graph then it's Science!

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:13, archived)

American English is supposed to be "simpler",
but it's only really morphologically simpler, which is just stupid.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:15, archived)

I can't understand a word of that cop show they all go on about

(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:18, archived)

Newspeak doubleplusgood!

( applehead herp derp, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 23:16, archived)