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8 months ago
Cantonese has 'SOV' structures and can be used to transcribe English, therefore it is not a Sinitic language
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8 months ago
English speakers are linguistically circumcised because there's no T-V distinction, the swear-words aren't rude enough, and there are no 'proper' diminutives
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8 months ago
English and Chinese speakers are more vulnerable to disease because aspirated consonants
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8 months ago
Coining the word 'weeb' is making a dumb@ss new language that means nothing
to r/badlinguistics by WavesWashSands
8 months ago
Chinese characters kill creativity, and who needs to learn British English?