That is hilarious.

Am I seeing things? Am I certain this person is an idiot? Am I bold enough to make such an assertation? Yes. Yes, I am.

My bachelor thesis was on this topic, so I know a thing or two about it 😅

We took your countries and we took your words... like the British Mueseum, if it ain't nailed down, we takin' it! If it is nailed down, we takin' that too...

Ovid is egg, idiots. Oviraptor - egg thief.

What in the heavens? Then again, conservatives are full of shite anyways.

Well, turns out the words 'I', 'me', 'you', 'they', 'them', 'us', and 'we' aren't real because they're not backed by science /s

Wey aye man.. divvent kna what I'm.ganna dee the day like

Yes. Greetings and salutations, Baby. I find you quite adorable. Do you concur with my assessment? I assure you, it is correct.

Not true of course. That entirely depends on where you are from. There was research on that. Results on most difficult languages in general : 1. Mandarin 2. Arabic 3. Telugu 4. Japanese 5. Polish 6. Turkish 7. Russian 8. Vietnamese 9. Finnish 10. Korean

And what sound would that be, exactly?

isnt often pronounced off-ten

So.... Klingon XD

I... don't understand how learning Hindu or Swahili would be EASIER if you already know Mandarin vs. already knowing English XD The language families for Hindu, Swahili, and Mandarin are all drastically different.

That’s why the word “y’all” was invented 😉

Oh, please…life is too short as it is.

Someone please help, it's 4:10am and my brain is not home. Spanish from Spain and Spanish from Mexico are THE SAME LANGUAGE, right? (Other than regional differences.) It's just called español in Mexico and castellano in Spain. I'm adopted, but my family is Mexican, and I learned Spanish as a child. We've had exchange students from Spain and I was able to understand them perfectly and converse with them just fine. These three people are just idiots, right?!

If a train is travelling at a speed of 1 language per week ...

Bruh... from 22+ years of dating my Chinese boyfriend, I've learned a LOT about the written Chinese language. A lot of it is pictographic in origin, so yes, certain characters will "resemble" the word they represent (like the words for net, fire, farm/field, person, meat.) But this is due to literal THOUSANDS of years of language development and has zero to do with a fictional white man who wore a robe and sandals. They are correct above with the depiction for the character for "rest" in that it contains the character for "person"... but it DOES NOT have a Christian "cross" in it. Written Chinese existed long before people invented Jesus and the Christian cross.

They're describing how they "stole" the language as if it was a heist.

The 63 million people in the world who speak Italian as a first language would like a word (and some gestures) with whomever posted this.

Northern Indiana subcontinent?!?!?

Those first three are the stupidest descriptions I've ever seen, and I've seen a racist description of what the word "Covid-19" means.

lol, my Chinese boyfriend would like a word with whomever posted this.

The French academy often make rules that make no sense and aren't apply by anyone but a few grammar zealots.

So the main employer in Papua New Guinea (host to over 800 languages) is the academy of languages?

"natural and constructed"? Which languages are natural?

Finnish language center added 4000 new words and meanings just last year. But of course let's not let facts get in the way of an argument

France: Oui.

And academics go to each single person who uses words in the wrong way and ground them

I'm still wondering what's a natural language VS a constructed one. Uhhhh....... What?

To be fair, most of our technology is MADE in China these days...

Klingon!!

It MUST be true, because English has the word "park" and there's a Korean last name that's spelled "Park"!!! PROOF!!!! /s

No. A tonal language means if you get the tone wrong, you might be saying, "Your wife is a big hippo," instead of what you wanted to say, which was, "Highly enjoyable."

Yeah, you know, those Ancient Greeks that are totally immortal and still living in Italy... we had some movies about these immortals, it's a series of films called "Highlander"...

That is sort of true, at least for spelling. There wasn't a single way to spell most words so it was pretty much a free for all. In the 17th and 18th centuries a few academics started writing dictionaries and decided on what should be standardized English.