On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:58:39 +0200, Ricky Clarkson
<[email protected]> wrote:
English is simple until you try to pronounce it.
Cough, bough, enough, dough, thought.
And until you try to spell it.
Beaurocracy, fondue, diarrhoea (UK version).
No, diarrhoea is not the UK version of fondue, although I guess there
might
be some resemblance.
In contrast, you can learn the pronunciation rules of Italian in a day
and
then read it aloud correctly, albeit with a foreign accent. It's a far
more regular language than English, probably because it has far fewer
influences. English probably won because its speakers don't bother to
learn local languages.
Italian is by far one of the simplest languages around to pronounce (it's
for sure the simplest one of those I've heard at least once). As an
italian I find that almost every other language is a nightmare to
pronounce (I'm trying to learn french and But of course I was talking of
the written form: the comparison is with programming languages and we
write in them, not read out loud.
On the other hand Italian has got a pack of verb moods and times (I think
as most of the neo-latin languages), not counting that they have different
variations for each of the six persons (three singular and three plurals)
- most italians for instance have problems with the subjunctive mood in
moderately complex sentences. Italian was influenced by tons of external
sources as since the fall of the roman empire the area has been invaded by
virtually any population in Europe and surroundings (various waves of
barbarians peoples, normans, arabs, germans, frenchs, spanish, etc...). I
think it was more or less the same history in every part of Europe (and
even in the rest of the world, but I don't have direct knowledge).
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