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Enriclvm
Bulgaria
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Well. This is my answer, I hope that other people also participate here.
- I feel very strange when the people call "male" and "female" to themself and to the other people. It sounds very bad, very rude for me. We just use it for speak about animals in my language. For example: I feel normal ask "is this hamster male or female?" but no ask "are you male or female". And when someone ask me if I'm male or female i want to answer "human". Because say male or female is kinda eliminate the human condition of the people and speak just about the sex.
- I don't like that the english don't have words for call the young people. I thought during long time that boy and girl were the same for different genres, and that we could use it for call someone of even 25 years old. The last summer my teacher told me that I just can call a boy to someone of 12 or less years old, and after that he's already a man. Lol But simultaneously a girl of the same age (even when the girls grow faster than boys) can be called girl being 25. I don't feel myself a man, I don't feel myself adult but if I say that I'm a boy I'm wrong so I kinda feel that I don't have answer. We have many other words in my language that are simultaneously for girls/women or boys/men for different ages.
- I have problems with the "you" because this person doesn't have plural. It makes confusions often and I don't know what to say for be specific and ask or tell something in plural (all of us?).
- I have problems for say that my friend is a girl/woman or a boy/man. I have to say "I have a friend from hungary, this friend a girl" when i prefered could say "i have a girl friend from Hungary". And I feel a bit ridiculous that a person can call boyfriend to someone 80 years old when nobody can't call him just boy since a lot of years ago. xD
- I feel that the english have too many possible confusions. For example: "I like him / I'm like him", "you're father / your father"
- I sometimes don't know if I have to spell a word with "f" or "ph". Why does the english have both? Lol
- And finally the most important. Oral english doesn't have any relation with write english. I feel that I have to learn 2 different languages, I never know how I have to speak a word when I read that, and I never understand the words of the songs if I don't read the lyrics. That's so freak. The vowels doesn't have much relation with the real ones, there are many mute letters and many letters that change the position. I know that english isn't the only language with these problems, and I complain my mother language for have it too much but the english is still more radical. You write "u" and say something like "a", you write "e" and that doesnt have sound, you write "ee" and that sounds "i", you write "i" and that sounds "ai", etc How can the people write "who" and say "hu", write "battle" and say "batèl", write "dirty" and say "dèry", write "girlfriend" and say "gèlfrèn", write "face" and say "fèis", write "hour" and say "auèr", write "why" and say "guai", write "write" and say "gruait"... ? Why make the language so different?
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