Ask HN: Is your mother language any better than English?
Please give some examples of those features, because I use to know only malfeatures of non-English languages.
Here's a whole grammar book in English: https://pangloss.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Est_grammar-E...
For example, I watched a movie yesterday is "I watch a movie yesterday" in Chinese. The past-tense and the timestamp are redundant.
There is no concept of countable and uncountable nouns. Because countability doesn't make sense, as everything is made of atoms and uncountable, countability doesn't convey any meaningful message as part of a sentence and only makes a language more complex.
Verbs in Chinese don't need to change their forms according to the subject.
I is
She is
We is
> This is pretty subjective and not exactly a language feature, but one interesting thing to me about Greek is that the different words for love provide a lot more nuance and a depth of meaning. Greek songs about all kinds of relationships express passion in a way that I don't really feel in English songs.
> Georgian has many interesting language feature, but one fact that's interesting to me is that each one of the 33 letters are always pronounced the same regardless of the context. There's no tricky situations like in English where you have 2 words such as pour and sour and pronounce similar letter combinations differently just because. If you can read Georgian, you can pronounce any word, no matter how long and complex it is. The tricky part is that the letters themselves represent some consonant combinations that are nigh' impossible for native English speakers to pronounce.
By the way, despite some of the tricky gotchas and inconsistencies of English, just like PHP, for whatever reason it seems to work and is widely used.