*Really?* That's the first time anyone's ever said that. All I've heard about in my Linguistics classes and have had demonstrated over and over in Grammar is how rule-breaking and renegade the English language is, that I'm lucky to speak if first-hand
Well, sure... English is a rebellious language, and French is very much about rules and such. But the thing is... I have this theory that a language needs to be alive in order to be easy to learn. Meaning, English is a lot more about instincts and such. It's more flexible than French and hence, easier to learn and use. With French, if you don't understand the rules and make sure you know them, you can see your whole meaning anihilated. There's no such thing as understandable pidgin-French, whereas I've always felt that you could go far with only a few basis of English. Pidgin-English is a lovely thing for the language-impaired. French is a tyran.
But that's probably because I'm hopeless when it comes to learning rules and how to apply them and abide by them. Which is why I love English so much. You can bend English very far. English is a lovely limber lover, whereas French seems to me like more of the frigid type. lol.
It all depends on what your ways of assimilating something are. :-)
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Date: March 5th, 2003 11:46 am (UTC)Well, sure... English is a rebellious language, and French is very much about rules and such. But the thing is... I have this theory that a language needs to be alive in order to be easy to learn. Meaning, English is a lot more about instincts and such. It's more flexible than French and hence, easier to learn and use. With French, if you don't understand the rules and make sure you know them, you can see your whole meaning anihilated. There's no such thing as understandable pidgin-French, whereas I've always felt that you could go far with only a few basis of English. Pidgin-English is a lovely thing for the language-impaired. French is a tyran.
But that's probably because I'm hopeless when it comes to learning rules and how to apply them and abide by them. Which is why I love English so much. You can bend English very far. English is a lovely limber lover, whereas French seems to me like more of the frigid type. lol.
It all depends on what your ways of assimilating something are. :-)