@megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social
Post #3284432
2026-02-08 23:09 UTC
@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social English IS a pretty simple language, compared to most others, which makes it useful.
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@cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com 2026-02-09 09:29
@megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social every Polynesian language is simpler than English. it's not simplicity that makes English useful, it's its status as a global "lingua franca" which is a result of centuries of colonization, the US being the current cultural and economic colonizer of the world for the past hundred years.