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samustoday at 11:08 AM2 repliesview on HN

Both Slavic languages and German have complex declination systems for nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Which is unlike stereotypical caveman speech.


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iammjmtoday at 12:06 PM

I speak German, Polish, and English fluently and my take is: German is very precise, almost mathematical, there is little room to be misunderstood. But it also requires the most letters. English is the quickest, get things done kind of language, very compressible , but also risks misunderstanding. Polish is the most fun, with endless possibilities of twisting and bending it's structures, but also lacking the ease of use of English or the precision of German. But it's clearly just my subjective take