Apparently this reminder is needed.
It is a meme.
English is only “hard” because it is shit. There ain’t no rules for nothing. All the “rules” have exceptions, which have exceptions, which have have exceptions.
Invented by an island of rock throwing mongrels.
Too wide spread, too many accents
English is not the only language with homonyms.
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English should just adopt hanzi. All problems solved.
You’re a homonym.
In French if something isn’t functioning properly you say that “il ne marche pas.” Now, in my studies, “marche” means “walk.” So to me that says “it doesn’t walk.” I asked a native speaker about that and they told me, no, that is not what that means.
I’m English Canadian with a lot of French Canadian family and friends … I don’t speak French but I’ve been around it all my life … here’s one for you …
Le ver vert va vers le verre vert
Easy!
The green worm goes towards the green glass 😌👌
And back to English: Aaron earned an iron urn
Wait till you find out about du coup -
I’ve been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Du coup.
Je vais arrêter maintenant.
Why would you attack me like that!
Same in German. “Es geht nicht.”
It’s like saying your fridge is not running.
Noses run, feet smell. Everybody knows that.
Then you… better go… catch it… em… oh… Hangs Up
Same in Romanian. “Nu merge”.
Pretty sure seals were named after seals.
Come on, you can’t count Seal the musician… That’s not a common name in English speaking countries. I’ve never heard of anyone else named Seal
I put my seal on the letter, he got it wet, and Seal couldn’t read it.
English is easy. The hardest part about it, which some other languages also feature, is a poor correspondence between the written and spoken language.
That feels intuitively correct to me, but I’m not sure if I’d say any language is particularly “easy”. Language is complex, complicated and only makes sense in the context of understanding human communication. Although language is also more intuitive than we give it credit for.
I think spoken Japanese is possibly “easier” than spoken English, but written Japanese (outside of digital media) is essentially impossible for me because I don’t have Kanji memorized.
I mean yes it’s a bit under-nuanced to describe any language as “easy” or “hard”. The single biggest influence is whether you’re already familiar with a similar language. English is going to be much easier if you already know German; Japanese will be much easier if you already know Okinawan. And as you say, written and spoke language can be quite different.
That said, I don’t think it is the case that all of the different factors trade off against one another perfectly. I would expect them to trade off against one another to an extent though, because I would imagine there are forces which cause overly complex languages to become simpler, and more simple languages to become more complex. (One aspect of complexity comes through redundancy, such as requiring agreement between inflections of words when the inflection only conveys information already imparted from the rest of the sentence. But extra redundancy can aid in understanding because the listener generally doesn’t hear everything perfectly)
But yeah, some languages just have incredibly complicated and picky grammar, whilst others have relatively simple grammar. As an English speaker, Japanese grammar has lots of unfamiliar features but could still be simpler than Finnish, which also has lots of unfamiliar grammar but which is very complex.
I feel like English is fairly easy to get into and have a correct conversation level. But that it’s insanely hard to master.
I have no reference for the relative difficulty of languages to master, except that I know that all languages are incredibly hard to master to the level of a native speaker.
i didn’t understand this at first
Military, air filter, paint brush, wax seal, Mike Tyson, sea-lion!
What’s the common word for the first row?
They’re all “seals”
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The top row was a little harder for me as I saw soldier, rubber something, and paint brush. The bottom I saw all seals.
The top is Navy Seal, rubber something seal, and sealing wood with a paint brush.
Thank you I also got the bottom robot had no idea about the top.
That’s Seal, a Bri’ish musician/singer.
Oh yikes, I’ll have to check him out now, thanks!
All the pictures are of things called “seal”… That’s the joke dude
Bay-bayehhh
comments you can hear
whoooooooooosh
Found the Pat McAffee fan.
Who?
Sports podcast in America. They went on a 5-10 min rant about all the different types of Seals their are. All of which are in your picture.
It’s me, I’m the Pat McAfee fan. Don’t know how they found me before I commented though, that is worrisome.
English is not hard. Nobody uses seal but me.
English programmer rounding up: ceil
You tell me
I don’t get the first row, somebody feel like helping me out? Lol
Both the first and second row are the same. Seal.
What kind of “tHaNk yOu fOr yOuR sErViCe”-brain nonsense made you think anything but a sliver of people would look at “man with gun” and think Seal?
Like navy seal, makes sense after it’s explained, at least to an american
Not military but it was easy, given the context. Literally basic critical thinking
I don’t think you know what critical thinking means because it isn’t “aware of niche American military units”
They’ve been reported on, popularized in western film/media for 30+ years but that isn’t critical thinking. They just aren’t very “niche”.
You would use critical thinking to say " every other box is obviously a seal, so the first box, which I don’t know, is also a seal. I wonder how, because I don’t know much about military units, but am sure that’s the name “seal” goes with box 1 too". That’s critical thinking jimmy. Lemme know if you need help with your shoelaces or anything
That’s inductive reasoning, Bobby, not critical thinking.
And yes, I gathered that this dude is apparently a seal of some sort, but that’s not the English language, that’s uncreative branding. It’s the same word, reused, not a different word also spelled ‘seal’.
Inductive reasoning is a critical thinking skill, James.
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Well, literally every other one here can be explained by the word seal and the meme is about how the words are the same. So…
That?
Context clues? Every other image is of a seal.
For real. I’m Canadian. I had no idea that dude was a seal either by looking at the meme for the first time. I do, however, possess half a brain cell.
Squadie, some kind of filter, painting.
A Navy Seal, an oil seal for a machine, and someone applying wood sealant.
Ohhh they’re all seal ok, I thought the top row was something else, the brush threw me off, I thought the center one was some sort of “brush” for something mechanical, like how you have a “brush” for motors and then some military unit nicknamed brushes lol
It took me a couple of minutes to figure out too. It’s not a very good meme lol
Why use lot word when few word do trick?
Actually, that’s an argument for a more expanded vocabulary. You can use single words to consolidate.
This post double plus good.
Three of those are the same thing and the other three are named after each other
Navy seal isn’t named after seal the animal. It’s an “acronym” for sea air and land.
And the fact that it’s a marine mammal is a coincidence? No it’s a backronym much like every other law’s name
SAAL?
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