Easiest language in absolute terms?

111   Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:00 pm GMT
Grunting, all teenagers do it, and if they don't understand just do it louder.
Gate-crasher   Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:48 am GMT
Quoth someone not very well versed in English:

<< 1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce . >>

You should know that all these words, though they're written the same, all have different pronunciations, right? So it's not really the "same" word, right?
Good luck next time.
spanishguy   Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:15 am GMT
English is the easiest language of the Galaxy.
oxenrider   Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:26 pm GMT
American English
Franka   Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:31 pm GMT
Malay.
Terrence   Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:30 pm GMT
AFRIKAANS!


One thing that Afrikaans does have going for it is that it really isn't a difficult language to learn if one already knows English. As with English, and unlike all of the continental West-Germanic languages, nouns in Afrikaans have no gender; pronouns make no distinctions between case, nor do nouns have number distinctions; and in general, the grammar is a lot more regular than that of Dutch or (horror of horrors) German. Another good thing to be said for Afrikaans, and which also happens to be true of German, is that things are usually pronounced as they are spelled, which isn't all that true of Dutch, and far too often untrue of ye** olde Englishe language.
Leasnam   Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:55 pm GMT
<<nor do nouns have number distinctions>>

I thought the plural ending was usually '-e' (dag -> dage), with a few irregular nouns (hemp -> hemde; kind -> kinders)