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		umanwizard on Jan 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A parliament of owls and a murder of crows: How gr... In what way is English grammar more “devolved” than Italian? It has, for example, simpler verb morphology (conjugations etc.) but more complex syntax and word order.

rightbyte on Jan 29, 2024 [–]

Italian seem to have more distics grammar features common with Roman, that English has lost compared to proto germanic.

I mean, verb conjugation of an irregular verb fills up a sheet of paper.

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