There is no way BBC just did this...

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[–]wuzizname 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

As a English speaker who learned French serious fuck gendered nouns. You need at least double prepositions and pronouns to make it work. I don’t know if German is the same but the Latin languages are a mess with them.

[–]Tom_BombadilBombadildo 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I agree it's a hassle to learn the additional syntax structure of other languages. The message can be reasonably conveyed without the additional complexity.

However, some of the play-on meanings of phrases is lost when a language is stripped down to the basics. This can affect poetry, or comedy, etc.

My point is it's easy to make fun of other patois if you don't understand the nature of language.

English is the Ebonics of European languages.

No doubt the audience reading the paper in question will be fluent in at least two (probably +3) languages.

The meme is low brow comedy.