Well, you take the rough with the smooth with English:
Smooth:
verb conjugation rules are straightforward
adjective declension is trivial - don’t do it
easy to make most plurals, only a handful of exceptions to learn
no grammatical gender
Rough:
can’t have too many words that mean almost-but-not-quite the same thing
spelling is the fever dream of a madman. In particular, eighteen or so vowel sounds represented by five letters, words transliterated from other languages that may or may not have their pronunciation changed, words that have had their pronunciation changed over the centuries but spelling hasn’t been updated. Because fuck you, that’s why.
putting two words together to make noun phrases that don’t have the meaning of either word
a plethora, indeed a veritable abundance, of strange grammatical forms
Genuinely thought it was an older spelling of “feign,” but have learned that they are homophones that have opposite meanings. Like a contronym, but phonetically… a controphone.
“fain” is new to me. This stupid language never ends.
you’d never get invited for coffee and smokes
Well, you take the rough with the smooth with English:
Smooth:
Rough:
You mostly take the rough, to be fair.
English is simplified Germanic with French words, that never got a spelling reform.
Fain is very archaic, it’s not something that would be used anymore. Even back in 1906 it was archaic.
Genuinely thought it was an older spelling of “feign,” but have learned that they are homophones that have opposite meanings. Like a contronym, but phonetically… a controphone.
dude not cool
also reported for homophonia. be better.
cat with homophobia in her eyes
wait i know that word and i know how to parse it but i don’t know what the fuck it means. nobody tell me it is hidden in the coffee