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Originally Posted by Deepwaters
Actually, fewer confusing things like that might make it easier for us to learn your beautiful language. 
Then again, I'm a native speaker of probably the most confusing and rule-averse language in the world, so I guess I can't complain.  |
Yes, that's largely what has made me generally interested in language is that English is such a pain in the ass, though, I understand that language in general is like that.
Yes, the whole understanding by context thing makes any language a lot more difficult, at least until you get the hang of it. It does seem to be a natural thing that humans are good at. It's part of what makes it so difficult to program computers to understand human language. Everything sort of has a meaning, but it's often not entirely clear what that meaning is. It's like we're all playing instruments and just trying to fit our sound into the mix and make it sound good.