洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:hongminhee@hollo.social
Mar 11, 2026, 12:18 PMTo be precise, it's not English as a language that I hate, but English as a form of power.
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Mar 11, 2026, 1:28 PM@hongminhee I hate both aspects of it. A ludicrous grammar, an incoherent orthography, and a vocabulary that is unnecessarily bloated with gratuitous synonyms, and a penchant for stealing random pieces of grammar and vocabulary from all over just to make the language even bigger with every passing year.
And the fact this language is the "international language" just ticks me off.
Mar 11, 2026, 5:06 PM@hongminhee i think you make some great points about how power structures impact all of this (and online i recognize i am privileged to be an english speaker, with all the access that entails).
access is important but not at the expense of clarity. it's not about grammar—the gulf between cultures can be so hard to bridge. i don't trust an (implicitly biased, probably american) llm to foster understanding. isn't that reinforcing cultural hegemony and upholding the same power structures?
Jun 14, 2026, 1:28 AMHear hear!
Superannoyed to lay down your argument as best as one can, and then be told/ridiculed¹ it wasn't good enough due to wrong geographic preference ("rubbish" instead of "trash", etc).
After spending countless hours to learn English to communicate with you, one could at least spend a minute to figure out what "rubbish" might mean in context. Or politely ask clarification.
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¹ by someone who doesn't even share on what continent they live, but are clearly a native speaker