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Do not be surprised when someone corrects you to 'purposefully'.
I still enjoy the use of "ain't". It's a beautiful word.
Sure is!
Y'all ain't from around 'ere, aren't ya?
To be fair, they are very close in meaning.
in most cases language should minimize unneeded complexity imo
having 4 differently spelled words that mean the same shit but with slightly different hyper-specific use cases seems stupid
i bet it is French root
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Haha you would love the Japanese language.
One character can have multiple meanings, and different pronunciation. 一 (ichi) vs 一つ (hitotsu) for instance.
And then there are the puns. So many puns.
I love reading about Japanese wordplay in manga when the scanlator is solid but only because I don’t have to converse in it. Still at least it is not tonal.
We're talking about English here.
It breaks pretty much all of its own rules, and arguably is the most unnecessarily complex widely spoken language.
and something like 80% of those words are fucking French root (complete anger driven ass-pull number)
I believe the actual number is around 25-30%. Blame the Norman invasion.
But French is like 80% Latin roots so you can blame the Romans before that.
Also yeah the crazy number of synonyms is a peculiarity of English because it also has strong influence from Old Germanic, Latin (more directly), Greek, even a bit of Sanskrit.
Also arabic and other semitic languages
Latin is at least pronounced just like its written.
The french took those words, threw away everything but the root, added 50% more vowels than necessary and drew a few symbols over certain letters to change the pronunciation.