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by mootothemax 1 day ago
It’s great compression: Y sometimes a vowel, sometimes a consonant.

And while not encoded on a keyboard, it still blows my mind that English has a crazy number of past tenses - and a such a bad hack of a future tense that it’s hard to classify as such.

Linguistics is fun. The accents are alright.

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Or English has only two tenses (present and past perfect) and everything else is done with modifiers.