This is a very loose statement... Simple in what? For what? For whom?
English may be simpler to write than many other languages, because it does not have graphic accents, for example, but also, less familiar words may end up being much more difficult to read.
It is also not easy to learn for those who are not already familiar with the vocabulary, something that is very similar among Latin languages. It is much faster for speakers of Latin languages to learn other Latin languages than English, especially among Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
English also did not undergo the spelling reforms that some Latin languages underwent, such as changing 'ph' to 'f'; 'rh' to 'r'; 'th' and 'tt' to 't'; 'pp' to 'p' and others, which made writing and reading many scientific names and other words much easier.
Dante
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2025-04-25 12:30:43
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