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  • sneak100 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    18 days ago
    salty rant

    I hate english. I hate that I dream in english. I hate that I now mostly think in english. I hate how rigid it feels and like I can’t describe the most basic shit sometimes, because some concepts just don’t exist in english. I hate how anglos literally couldn’t be fucked to come up with names for some plants, animals or cloud formations or whatever, and just use latin instead to make themselves look more sophisticated. I hate that I had to switch languages mid-life and now I’m shit at both. I hate that I used to be such an avid reader, until I was dropped into a community of crackers where I was the only immigrant and convinced myself that I should only be reading in english from now on to help me learn the language better - it made me hate books and reading. I have no problems in everyday conversation, but can’t read a book without a dictionary, because some anglo has to show off their big fucking dick about how many fancy words they know and how that makes them better than you. I hate that I don’t get to talk to anyone in my native language anymore apart from a couple hours a few times a year. I hate the people who correct your grammar when you’re the person breaking your tongue to express yourself in a way they would understand, especially when they know exactly what you meant already and are “just trying to be helpful”. I hate the extra layer of politeness that gets smeared over every aspect of communication in the imperial core, like some kind of McCustomerService culture. I feel so trapped in this anglo nightmare mind prison.

    Idk this is a big rant and some of these things probably aren’t that much of a big deal, but I’m feeling very fed up and salty that I struggle to express myself (I’m sure it’s related to autism as well).

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      18 days ago

      I only speak English and I feel the same way lmao…it’s not just you. English is not a very efficient language. It’s not spelled the same way it sounds. It’s probably the only language where we have something like a thesaurus. Why do synonyms even exist in the first place? English is nice when we have very specific words (like “pretentious” vs. “ostentatious”), but I’d gladly trade those for consolidation of words like ran, sprint, dash, dart, race, hastened, and hurried into one word.

      • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        18 days ago

        Ironically enough, yk how Pierre Poillievre said he liked Anglo-Saxon words for their simplicity…

        Honestly, I am now appreciating more the Romance and Greek influences, if not Germanic, of the language, for the fact that they can easily be broken down in etymology and yet are more technical, than just the Anglo-Saxon base… especially when used in political language

        “National Liberation”, “Cultural Hegemony”, “Base and Superstructure”…

        And I’ll bet yer ass, there’d be like, Idk, a Spanish cognate of those terms

      • sneak100 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        18 days ago

        Definitely. My partner’s home country is basically in this situation after the british were done with it. To the point where my partner comes from a family that only spoke english at home (or rather a mix, like you say, but it definitely leans heavily english). They now find it extremely difficult to learn the language of their diaspora later in life due to dyslexia, as well as social stigma of not knowing it and others not seeing them as >ethnicity< enough.