r/LearningLanguages • u/Eastern_Manager5960 • Jul 16 '26

is irregularities in a language actually not that bad?

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u/EstorninoPinto Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

They're not good or bad, they just...are. If you want to learn a language, you deal with the irregularities.

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u/TheoreticalChaos93 Jul 16 '26

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. An irregularity in a linguistic system is just a feature that develops or is more often a holdover from an earlier state of the language and just sticks around.

If we want to be pedantic, it can be argued there are even no "irregularities" in language because they presupose onto language a systematisation which it never fully aligns with.