Puzzler
5 Jan 2008
Language / What language do you like better, Polish or English? [71]
- I like both of them completely equally. None of them is any better, easier, more or less beautiful, etc. than the other. It's one's attitude towards a language that makes it good, easy to learn, hard to learn, beautiful, ugly, etc. to one. That is, if one holds the conviction that, for example, a given language is hard to learn, then the language is hard to learn to one.
And so on, and so forth.
By the way, Polish and English aren't as dissimilar as many seem to believe they are.
- Let's not exaggerate - English is open, but not totally, crazily open, to foreign influences. I'd say that as regards borrowing from other languages, English doesn't do it more than others. Lots of languages, actually, have borrowed from English.
Now when I say 'English,' I mean British English - it's the standard English for me.
What language do you like better, Polish or English?
- I like both of them completely equally. None of them is any better, easier, more or less beautiful, etc. than the other. It's one's attitude towards a language that makes it good, easy to learn, hard to learn, beautiful, ugly, etc. to one. That is, if one holds the conviction that, for example, a given language is hard to learn, then the language is hard to learn to one.
And so on, and so forth.
By the way, Polish and English aren't as dissimilar as many seem to believe they are.
That's because English has borrowed words from languages everywhere, and continues to do so
- Let's not exaggerate - English is open, but not totally, crazily open, to foreign influences. I'd say that as regards borrowing from other languages, English doesn't do it more than others. Lots of languages, actually, have borrowed from English.
Now when I say 'English,' I mean British English - it's the standard English for me.