• imouto@lemmy.world
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    I’m trilingual and two of the languages don’t even have this bs lol (Mandarin, Japanese, English).

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      Recently I went on Wikictionary by curiosity to see how a Japanese world was constructed and Japanese looked extremely powerful but insanely complex.

      You can properly express so much in this language

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        I’m learning japanese right now, it has a very Lego-like structure for creating words and sentences that allows you to be very specific about things which is pretty cool.

        Homophones are waaaaay more common in Japanese than in English though.

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          If you wanna blow your mind even more, look into hungarian, finnish, turkish or georgian. These are some very agglutinative languages, much more than japanese. If i was you i would skip hungarian and georgian tho because the grammar is unhinged but for what they are finnish and especially turkish are pretty nice.

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        You can express just about everything in any language. It just sometimes takes more words.