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| TobaccoSmoke Newbie England Joined 4374 days ago 16 posts - 21 votes | Message 1 of 6 11 January 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Germans and Polish in particular often claim that they are more intelligent than English speakers because their languages have numerous cases and lots of irregularities. They often claim that English is a grammatically simple language, which suggests that its native speakers are less intellectual.
This may be a sweeping statement, but I've definitely heard these views aired before by German and Polish speakers. This is rather politically incorrect ground. While it may be broadly acceptable to suggest British and American people are stupid and intellectually shallow, it certainly isn't acceptable to suggests non-Europeans are, and non-Indo-European languages do not have cases, often do not have any significant verb conjugation, are often very regular and some don't even have many tenses. By Polish and German standards, speakers of these simple non-European languages must be less intellectual, no? Edited by TobaccoSmoke on 11 January 2013 at 2:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5532 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 6 11 January 2013 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | ||
When you ask a question like this, what kind of discussion do you hope to start? It seems to me that such broad accusations of arrogance rarely lead to rewarding or positive threads. 14 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5262 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 3 of 6 11 January 2013 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Emk, he knows full well what he's doing. The mods should stop this one before the troll gets fed.
Cough, cough, COF. Please stop the low level trolling. We don't need, or want that here. Edited by iguanamon on 11 January 2013 at 2:39pm 11 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4358 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 4 of 6 11 January 2013 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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There is something wrong with your original statement. If there are people who claim that americans and british are stupid, etc., surely it is an idea that has nothing to do with lanuage. If there are hateful people around, they will simply find idiotic "arguments" to back up their hate.
As for the English language it is deceptively "simple". Most foreigners can never pronounce it properly. Plus they probably have never heared of Shakespeare and some other fellas like him. Do the Germans and the polish really think that their languages make superior to English speaking people? Are you sure you are being fair here? Maybe you met a couple of stupid people and you formed the wrong idea for entire nationalities? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4682 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 5 of 6 11 January 2013 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Never argue with a fool - they will drag you down to their level, then beat you with
experience. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 6 11 January 2013 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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This topic can be discussed in a less potentially inflammatory way. Thread closed.
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