Ask Lemmy

I know a few languages, English not being the first one. But I too have learned that not only might English be broken, but so might my mental and cultural skills with it. Though I figure priority one is whether what I say follows grammatical rules. Political manifestos, which this place is all too familiar with, don't even have that, yet people seem to understand what they're saying if people are going around saying how wise they are.

I'm learning French so I'm not the best person to ask.

Learning English taught me how broken English is knight or phone is a good start.

quite simple: I learned english

I say “correct” more frequently now when in agreement instead of “right.” 🤷‍♀️

I knew English was broken well before I learned a second language

English's biggest problem as a language is the efforts to break it even further. This idea that popular things push that state of the ever-evolving language is why we have 'mid' and 'based', which are completely detrimental no matter how fetch they seem. People who find apostrophes hard to use should not be driving the evolution of a language on some famewhore channel.