English isn't substantially worse than any other natural language, except insofar that it is attached to a very inconsistent system of spelling. That's somewhat orthogonal to English as a language, though, and indeed it could be written with any imagined writing system (e.g. quickscript).
I'm not well-versed in any foreign languages, but the little I know of Spanish grammar seems to be a lot more consistent than english. (There are footguns, there just seem to be fewer.)
And since we're talking about ideals, I don't see any reason to limit ourselves to natural languages! I am quite certain you could design a language which is much easier to learn and no less expressive.
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English isn't substantially worse than any other natural language, except insofar that it is attached to a very inconsistent system of spelling. That's somewhat orthogonal to English as a language, though, and indeed it could be written with any imagined writing system (e.g. quickscript).
I'm not well-versed in any foreign languages, but the little I know of Spanish grammar seems to be a lot more consistent than english. (There are footguns, there just seem to be fewer.)
And since we're talking about ideals, I don't see any reason to limit ourselves to natural languages! I am quite certain you could design a language which is much easier to learn and no less expressive.