alt Hacker News> The question isn't about alienness. It's about difficulty.
The original link is specifically about difficulty to native English speakers, which is certainly linked to its alienness.
> The question isn't about alienness. It's about difficulty.
The original link is specifically about difficulty to native English speakers, which is certainly linked to its alienness.
Turkish is regular, has well specified rules you can learn in a week, is extremeley easy to read (pronounce as written, there's no floating/jumping/changing stress). Oh, and the alphabet is latin-based.
Russian: extremely complicated grammar using concepts entirely alien to English (declensions, inflections, conjugates, grammatical cases, genders, transgressives, and even plurals are weird), has free-form-not-really sentence structure, jumping stress. Oh, and a completely different alphabet to boot.