🚫🇬🇧 Think English has it all? Think again! There are a lot of things that English just can't do. I took a close look at the English language to find out just what English can't do. Here are 16 cool features missing from the English language.
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🙈 CORRECTIONS:
"Cantará" (He/She/It will sing) should be "Cantaré" (I will sing)
⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - English Has Holes
0:18 - #1: Missing Words
1:30 - #2: Clusivity
2:22 - #3: Tone + Pitch Accent
4:08 - #4: Reduplication
5:28 - #5: Echo Responses
6:40 - #6: Polite "You"
7:45 - #7: Question Particles
8:35 - #8: Copula vs. Locative "Be"
9:31 - #9: Null Subjects
10:34 - #10: Evidentials
11:37 - #11: Time-Independence
12:32 - #12: Hyper-Specific Tenses
12:50 - #13: Absolute Directions
13:38 - #14: Synthetic Future Tense
14:37 - #15: Distributive Numbers
15:23 - #16: Whistled Words
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1 июн 2024