What features in the english language make it a great language?

Answer 1

Although it is a bear to learn and is loaded with inconsistent spelling, it does have some features that make it great.

English freely and openly takes words from other languages and uses them - if there is a need for them. Contrast this with French, for example. The French Academy works to keep French "pure", burdening it with words and phrases that just confuse the issue.

English uses words as words - not as fixed parts of speech. In English, you can make a noun into a verb or an adjective, for example.

English comes up with words it needs. Best recent example might be the verb "to google". If you say "Did you google that?", everyone knows what you are asking.

Perhaps as a culmination of all that, English is a very compact language - you can say more with fewer words than most languages. To show this, look at some of the official notices that are posted in both English and Spanish. If there is any length at all, invariably the English version will be shorter than the Spanish version.

English has its faults, but it works - very, very well.

Answer 2

There is nothing about English grammar that makes it a "great language". It is a completely normal human language in every respect--it has its share of irregularities just like every other language.

What makes English a "great language" is the fact that its speakers happened to be from England and the United States--the English ruled the seas (and therefore commerce) during the 18th and 19th centuries, and the Americans ruled the seas and skies during the 20th and 21st centuries. English speaking peoples have controlled commerce and, therefore, the world's wealth for over three centuries.

Answer 3

All languages are great languages if you know and use them correctly

Answer 4

its too simple...