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I know you're being snarky, but do you actually speak any other languages? Because I don't think you realize how easy you have it.

He. She. It. That's all you have to deal with. You have to know whether the subject is male, female, or indeterminate in some way. There's maybe a couple of exception (like boats being refered to as She and such) but other than that, you literally go by genitalia.

In most other languages you have to take into account whether the subject is male or female and whether the subject should be referred to as plural as a form of politeness; if their sex is unknown or indeterminate you have to know whether the word itself is masculine or feminine (or neutral!). Shall I go on?

Oh and that's not even mentioning languages with different grammar rules for the various different kind of persons. You have singular and plural. That's it. Some languages have singular, plural-few, plural-many, some, none, all, and they all have their different grammatical rules.

Boo-hoo, you gotta remember whether to put an s or not. Some languages have to remember dozens of different suffixes to put at the end of the word depending on the forementioned rules and a bunch more, including how the word itself is written.

Come on.

[notahacker]

To be considered competent in written English you also have to master a system of orthography so preposterously inconsistent and divorced from the spoken language that native-speaking kids have competitions to show off their prowess at rote-learning spellings of words; far more challenging than remembering whether the nouns are der, die oder das. In many other languages, literacy involves memorizing a few basic rules and knowing how words sound.

Given the vast amount of energy wasted on memorizing spelling quirks, compared with nearly all other languages, it's not surprising that many people, including you, frequently make other mistakes in their written English. When a language consists more of exceptions than rules one can't be too harsh on people for wrongly applying a rule.

To use the programming language you used elsewhere: English is PHP... it's easy to use as badly as everybody else uses it.