> English is generally easier to learn..for most people in the world
Ohoh, this line sparked a thought in my head:
"English is the JavaScript of human languages."
> ..slowly lost it's more difficult native features
That may be true of creole and English spoken as a second language (which, I believe, is more dominant in the world than English spoken by natives). Maybe also true about losing inflections, thank goodness, that surely must have made the language easier.
On the other hand, English as spoken by natives do contain plenty of quirks, exceptions, phrases that don't make sense explicitly (with implicit meaning you have to have learned/memorized)..
Ohoh, this line sparked a thought in my head:
"English is the JavaScript of human languages."
> ..slowly lost it's more difficult native features
That may be true of creole and English spoken as a second language (which, I believe, is more dominant in the world than English spoken by natives). Maybe also true about losing inflections, thank goodness, that surely must have made the language easier.
On the other hand, English as spoken by natives do contain plenty of quirks, exceptions, phrases that don't make sense explicitly (with implicit meaning you have to have learned/memorized)..