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People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?

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  • Phrasal verbs can often feel weird and arbitrary.

    Many of them are more or less intuitive:

    • Put down
    • Put in
    • Put on

    But then there’s:

    • Put up (with)
    • Put out
    • Put off

    Putting out the fire is pretty strange taken literally. Out where?

    The fact that they’re the exact opposites of the above doesn’t help.

    • People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?

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  • It seems to me that you’re making a strange argument throwing bugs and features into the same pot. The fact that other languages have different complexities does not make one language more or less broken.