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Question: Which of these languages is the least logical?
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German
 
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French
 
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Spanish
 
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English
 
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Sol
Junior Chimp
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« on: December 03, 2014, 10:19:03 PM »

This is a really stupid question--What the heck is logical supposed to mean? Is this the "park in the driveway/drive on a parkway" nonsense?

English has a single-syllable prefix derived from a basic vocabulary term that changes the meaning of the word it modifies to 'a shape-shifting monster consisting of a human who turns into a/n [stem word], typically on a lunar cycle'.
Not a particularly odd thing. See some of the prefixes in some of the polysynthetic languages of the Pacific Northwest.

Things that seem weird to speakers of European languages are often not that weird in the grand scheme of things, and vice-versa.
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Sol
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2014, 10:16:09 AM »

English by a narrow margin.

German seems prone to a good number of syntax issues as English, and it has so many conjugations and arbitrary article/adjective changes.

However English wins by lack of a "you" in plural, so many borrowed words, inconsistent spelling, and if one thinks about it "split infinitives", oh and accents you can't see in words like cliche or naive.

French spelling is as bad as English (Although any Northwestern European language is going to have a hard time with spelling their many vowels).

Many English dialects have a 2nd person plural, at least in the U.S., either with y'all, all y'all, you guys, or yinz.
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Sol
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2014, 04:06:16 PM »

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is measuring what language is more illogical than what is bunk and unscientific.
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