I don't know any Spanish at all but one of my sisters took several courses..and does have opportunity to use bits of it when she visits a close friend in Barcelona.

I didn't know about that characteristic of Spanish. So friggin' annoying when patriarchy is embedded in language structure.

To me, English is a more practical, less flowery language. It doesn't 'sing' nor flow in speech word structure. For certain, you can create poetry with English, but wordplay and puns in English don't seem as numerous in English compared to some other languages.

However a "practical" language makes opportunities to improve it, easier. ie. to neutralize words from "him" to "they" "them" or from "chairman" to "chairperson".

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