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| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
That's gotta be crap, man. No one can tell me that shitstorm of a language they speak in France is not harder than English. |
All right, I'm going to just one thing that is harder in English, for comparison's sake:
Word Stress: Word stress in French doesn't really matter that much, falling always on the last syllable (though apparently some Parisians put a vowel after the last consonant in some words, and that changes the pattern a bit). In English, however, word stress is a mess - it's pretty hard to tell what the stressed syllable of a word is unless you already know it, and it can be contrastive: In the noun "record", the "Re" is stressed; however, in the verb "to record" the "Re" is weak.
See, it's no absolute. I'm short of time but I'm sure you can find some more examples 
Regardless of that, languages share a similar structural complexity: of course, some languages are more fun in an area rather than another, and there are many factors that may come into play making one language less complicated overall than another (such as language contact, foreign assimilation, and so on). That's why English is often considered simpler than other languages, but it too has its traps.
If you like this topic, do some research on creole languages. They're languages that arise when two communities that didn't speak a previously shared language need to "build one" from scratch (the so-called pidgin) and then their children juice it up.
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