I was going to defend why it’s like that, but then I realized that I’m woefully under-qualified to defend any aspect of modern English as something well-understood, thought-out, or otherwise consistent with the rest of the language. Either you’re at the top of this field, or a rank amateur - there is no in-between. If I’m going to get skewered on the internet today, I’d rather it be in a Trek forum or something.
Pretty sure they are complaining about the Japanese language here. In Japanese, the words for languages are generally just a compound word of “Nation + character for language”. So French is “France Language” if you took it literally.
Except the word for English which gets to be different
I was indeed complaining about Japanese. At least English is consistently weird whereas Japanese makes you lower your defenses with its VERY regular grammar and then hits you over the head with different politeness-levels. ;)
I was going to defend why it’s like that, but then I realized that I’m woefully under-qualified to defend any aspect of modern English as something well-understood, thought-out, or otherwise consistent with the rest of the language. Either you’re at the top of this field, or a rank amateur - there is no in-between. If I’m going to get skewered on the internet today, I’d rather it be in a Trek forum or something.
TL;DR: English is a mess.
Pretty sure they are complaining about the Japanese language here. In Japanese, the words for languages are generally just a compound word of “Nation + character for language”. So French is “France Language” if you took it literally.
Except the word for English which gets to be different
I was indeed complaining about Japanese. At least English is consistently weird whereas Japanese makes you lower your defenses with its VERY regular grammar and then hits you over the head with different politeness-levels. ;)