“If someone were told he had a year to get as good at either Russian or Hebrew as possible, and would lose a fingernail for every mistake he made during a three-minute test of his competence, only the masochist would choose Russian – unless he already happened to speak a language related to it.”–John McWhorter, “English is not normal.”
https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages
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