语言学家说,英语是世界上最怪异的语言之一
英语“怪异”吗?当我们试图向学英语的人解释复杂的语言拼写规则或者像“it 's raining cats and dogs(下瓢泼大雨)”等俚语的意思时,很多人可能会觉得英语确实很怪。然而,教授或学习任何一门语言都并非易事。
Dr. Adam Schembri is based in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He completed a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Sydney in 2002.
英语“怪异”吗?当我们试图向学英语的人解释复杂的语言拼写规则或者像“it 's raining cats and dogs(下瓢泼大雨)”等俚语的意思时,很多人可能会觉得英语确实很怪。然而,教授或学习任何一门语言都并非易事。
Researchers aimed to find out which languages had the largest number of features that differed most from other languages. English came in 33rd position out of 239 languages, proving “weir...