Don’t have to memorize thousands of characters
Less grammatical cases
Happens to be somewhat of a lingua franca
Weird grammar
Unintuitive pronunciation of words
A bit difficult to be concise (need many words to convey idea)
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Did you say “has more words in order to accurately convey the idea”?
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Yep. This can lead to a lot of redundancy.
Repeatedly.
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太啰嗦了。。。
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yeah…
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Well, while my comment was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek response to yours, I still stand by the statement. While I’ll agree that there are pros and cons to any language, I think English sort of takes the cake. It’s my first language, and the only other one I’m decently fluent in in Spanish, but I’ve also studied Russian, Japanese and German, as well as majored in linguistics in college for a few semesters before I switched back to hard sciences, and I can say with a fair bit of confidence that English is way worse to learn than any of those four, at least. Japanese has its own unique challenges (Hirigana and Katakana, 2 identical-but-different 106-character phonetic alphabets, as well as the Kanji which they ripped off wholesale from Chinese, makes that part more challenging than our 26-character mostly-phonetic alphabet), but the fact that English is an amalgam of so many distinct languages makes it more challenging than most.
As an internet joke that periodically goes around says, English isn’t a language, it’s 3 different languages standing on each other’s shoulders in a hat and trenchcoat waiting in an alley to whack other languages on the head and steal random words and phrases from them.
edited for inability to count
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Welcome to Japan 
I appreciate your foreign language experiences, because I think it is noble for native English speakers to pursue such goals. I am well-aware of primary differences between many languages and am around C1 and A2 levels in German and Russian, respectively. We can easily ping-pong about what makes English difficult or easy to learn. I cannot speak for non-native English speakers because I am not one of them, and the difficulty of one language over another depends on one’s native tongue.
My comment was less about linguistics and more about blanket statements that could be interpreted as moral judgments – maybe it means I am one of those English speakers who communicates poorly. 
Nah, like I said, my original comment was just a riff on yours, which to be honest could also be interpreted as a value judgment statement about certain native English speakers if you wanted to nitpick, which I never intended. I was just trying to be funny and clever and it backfired a little.
Your making fun of me, aren’t you!
I know it. I just don’t know what it means. 
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Fewer.
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Nobody like a pedant! Well, except other pedants… 
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Work for today:
Front Squat (ss. BPAs)
5 x 5 @ 75kg
100 sit ups
Notes:
- Time really pushed at the minute. Just getting basic lifts done.
- Back is playing up again, so tried a few things to try and narrow it down. I think band pull aparts might be the answer here, we’ll find out.
- Crossfit experience has definitely shown me my Cardio game is weak (which I knew), and that my core strength is also weak (which I was pretending not to know) so work to do on both areas.
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Time to do planks with the sprogs on your back.
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Not a bad shout, to be fair.
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Work for today:
Squat:
10 x 20kg
5 x 60kg
5 x 60kg
5 x 70kg
5 x 80kg
5 x 90kg
5 x 100kg
5 x 107.5kg
5 x 10 @ 60kg
Hip thrust machine:
Some
Ab crunch machine:
Some
Air squats:
Lots
Notes:
- Very Squat heavy as I get near the end of my charity thing.
- All felt pretty good and solid today.
- Hate those BBB sets because it’s difficult mentally making them difficult.
- I’ve been spending a lot of family time these last few weeks while the kids are off. Had a few thoughts while away from the forums on what my real priorities are and what that means for my training. Essay to follow.
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Ramble incoming:
As mentioned above, these last few weeks I’ve been enjoying some family time which has given me an opportunity to figure out why I’m training and consider whether the things I’m doing align with my actual, real world, not on T-Nation goals. These goals could really be boiled down to looking better and feeling better, whereas the way I’m currently training tends to be geared around more weight on the bar. More weight on the bar is cool, but no-one cares about that except me, they care about whether I’m looking better and feeling better because that will impact what I can do for them. As weird as it sounds for someone at my level, I’m already strong enough for my main goals. That’s not to say I won’t be aiming to get stronger, but that it needs to stop being the only measure of my training. I think that to modify my training to hit my goals better, I need to be putting more focus on cardio, conditioning and postural/correctional work over barbell work.
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Work for tonight:
100 squats
100 sit ups
100 BPAs
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after a certain point getting stronger doesn’t seem to add to either of these. only ego.
irl the numbers mean nothing. it’s surprising when you discover it.
I’m happy for you, that you came to this.
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