Why is English so weird?

[TomTom]

English is a really big language with loads more words than most European languages. This is because of the history of merging different languages.

First you have Anglo-Saxon - a west Germanic language, then you get Viking influence on English and then the Norman influence on English to make the weird mix of modern English.

http://www.empowerlinguatranslation.com ... -language/

[MaxEnglish]

I think this is a fascinating topic. I actually made a video on it recently. Perhaps it could interest some people...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI7WqBN_5bI

[ritzkevin]

I'm an English tutor teaching English online through Skype. For me, one of the reasons why English is complicated because there are a lot of English words that are derived from other languages.

[Krisi]

Language itself is alive because we made it so... the 300-400 (or more) million people who are native English speakers plus some who use English (language) as their second language make the English language alive, thus give rise to a lot of new words.

[Herenkim]

As Krisi mentioned, Language is alive. So, a number of new words are generated and registered on Oxford English dictionary like 'google' which means searching for something by using a search engine.