What's a language whose existence baffles you?

[Eddie Riggs]

Title

 

[DoNotFeedTheSneed]

Luxembourgish. It's a really weird hybrid of German and French

 

[Catler]

Vietnamiese, why does it sound so bad.

 

[Feefee81093]

Anything with runes or calligraphy.

 

[DankSmoker]

Finnish. There are about a dozen definitions for the same word based on how it's pronounced.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Luxembourgish. It's a really weird hybrid of German and French

Like English I guess.

French in general throws me off, it's so different in pronunciation and sound from the other neighboring Romance languages. I would have figured with the Franks/Burgundians settling there it would have evolved into something more like Portuguese or Spanish.

 

[Pitbull Victim]

Catalan - it's like Spanish if it was spoken by a lisping pervert with a severe head injury

 

[SandyCat]

African american vernacular "english"

And there's the even worse pidgin. If you want to see just how bad pidgin is check it out

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

Albanian

 

[Seafarer]

Esperanto in theory sounds like a neat idea, but in reality it’s just commie globohomo bullshit.

It’s also dead and gay and we need to remind commies of that.

 

[Cats]

the clicking language, the nigger clicking language.

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

Basque. How the hell did it avoid getting curbstomped into non-existence for over 3,000 years and multiple conquests?

 

[AfghanBlue]

Welsh

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Ebonics

 

[Meat Target]

Portuguese. Why can't Brazilians just speak Spanish like a respectable 3rd World country? Spanish sounds cool. Portuguese sounds like Spanish with fetal alcohol syndrome.

 

[Chongqing]

It's crazy to me that Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic are still used and taught as languages.

I feel like that region should be speaking English or Russian.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Portuguese. Why can't Brazilians just speak Spanish like a respectable 3rd World country? Spanish sounds cool. Portuguese sounds like Spanish with fetal alcohol syndrome.

I actually think Portuguese sounds cooler, but I like both since they're so close to Latin....one thing I always find interesting is how the pronunciations of known words in these languages (as well as Italian) changed from the Latin originals. You can pick up something of the accents that existed back when it was all still Vulgar Latin.

My favorite one to compare is to the Latin ecclesia, or "church/congregation" since that word would have been in extremely common usage during the Christian era/Late Empire but not so much earlier. Ironically the word itself is a loan from Greek.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

Portuguese. Why can't Brazilians just speak Spanish like a respectable 3rd World country? Spanish sounds cool. Portuguese sounds like Spanish with fetal alcohol syndrome.

I find it interesting how completely different both continental portuguese and spanish sound compared to brazilian/south american spanish. In general the continental languages are richer and have much more variation of accents. We should just get rid of american accents altogether. But then brazilian is somehow the only language ever where the dialect sounds a lot better than the original.

 

[Shidoen]

the clicking language, the nigger clicking language.

Yeah how did that even come to existence.

 

[Town Drunk]

African american vernacular "english"

And there's the even worse pidgin. If you want to see just how bad pidgin is check it out

My mom used to be an ASL translator at her JW church. The head office of the cult decided to make deaf inclusive versions of the magazines. Basically all words not in ASL were removed. So it read exactly like if it was being said in sign language.

All the deaf people got pissed off at being treated like illiterate morons. It lasted about six months.

TFW a cultist has more respect than a nigger.