20 Sentences That Prove English Is the Dumbest Language
‘At the present moment, I’d like to present you with your present’
Native English speakers don’t realize it most of the time because, well, we’re native English speakers, but English is a hilarious nightmare language. Ask anyone who’s had to learn it because they immigrated from a non-English-speaking country — it wasn’t the language that they came for. Or the healthcare. Or the income equality. Hey, what did they come for?
We’re getting off topic. The point is that you’ve probably spoken a sentence today that would sound like you were having a stroke to a new English speaker — or even to you, if you stopped to think about it. Reddit proved that after user SamStephens asked r/AskReddit, “What’s a grammatically correct sentence that would totally mindfuck someone learning the English language?”
