What English does - but most languages can't

English has unusual linguistic features most other languages don't! These skills really make English unique compared to other languages around the world.

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~ Briefly ~

The second of two fun, experimental takes on features English lacks and has. Part one lives here:


Last time we met skills English is missing compared to other languages, now it's time for what it does have:

- (its spelling system)
- suppletive ordinals
- obligatory plurals
- definite and indefinite articles
- possession with "have"
- perfect with "have"
- passive voice
- asymmetric noun-pronoun alignment
- particle comparative with "than"
- interdental fricatives
- rhotics
- r-colored vowels (ahem, "coloured")
- nounless adjectives with "one"

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~ Credits ~

Art, narration and animation by Josh from NativLang.

My doc full of sources for claims and credits for music, sfx, fonts and images:

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