It seems like a difficult language to learn

Be Polish. Live at the crossroads of three major continental zones. Incorporates traditions from Arabic, Latin, and Nordic languages into a unique synthesis. Everybody hates it. Nobody wants to speak it.

Be English. Live at the ass end of nowhere, and become a haven for vagrants, dissidents, pirates, and exiles. Incorporate traditions from Latin, Germanic, and Frankish languages into a unique synthesis. Everyone hates it. Nobody wants to speak it. Become worlds most spoken language anyway.

Moral of the story. People will have to learn your shitty incoherent language if you build a big enough navy.

Hungarian and Finnish have entered the chat

The orthography is OK. It spams ⟨z⟩ for the same reason why Romance and Germanic languages spam ⟨h⟩ - too few letters, too many sounds, got to use digraphs.

The phonetic and phonemic part is like your typical European language. As in, "WE NEED A NEW SOUND! OTHERWISE WE CAN'T REPRESENT THE KITCHEN SINK DRIPPING!!!!"

The morphology is complicated, but the alternative is to make the syntax become a hellish mess. Like Mandarin or English. Language is complicated, no matter which one.

Bezwzględny Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz wyruszył ze Szczebrzeszyna przez Szymankowszczyznę do Pszczyny. I choć nieraz zalewała go żółć, niepomny następstw znalazł ostatecznie szczęście w źdźble trawy.

EDIT: copy/pasted from somewhere, this looks incredible to pronounce! The only polish word I know is kurwa, and Zubrowka.

I feel like we'd all be much more on board with this if Poland wasn't in the shadow of Hungary right next door looking like somebody's cat had a serious episode on top of a keyboard.

We used to have a server at my university which a polish guy set up. It received the name brzeczyszczykiewich. We decided that the server was secure enough by name, so we only put a trivial password on it for remote connection.

Kinda weird to isolate Polish when Hungarian, Finnish and Basque are actually all their own distinct language families.

Polish actually isn't in a distinct language family and shares a lot with other western Slavic languages like Czech, and Slavic languages in general.

Have you ever seen transcribed Georgian?

I don't think you could get the speakers of all the European languages to agree on which one is normal.

This is outrageous! I will call all users of our Polish instance "SZMER" to... OK, I might be getting your point.

Po twojej pysznej zupie

Nie ruszam dupy z klopa

Ta zupa była z mlekiem;

Na mleko mam alergię

Po twojej pysznej zupie

Nie ruszam dupy z klopa

Ta zupa była z mlekiem;

Na mleko mam alergię

...

Polish is a Slavic language written out using Latin letters.

I wonder if we had ž etc like Czechs would it make it easier for foreigners to read

Took 2 years of Polish at University. I spent more time on that one class than all my other classes combined... And I went to school for Education.

Me, a non European who only speaks english, so true

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz z Chrząszczyżewoszyce powiat Łękołody.

*cries at Greek

And when polish gets drunk, I always laugh because it changes a bit. They said its imposible to read polish subtitle on films, that is why they have a monoton voice reading out loud. They were the naughtiest in babylon 🤣

Ä, ö, ü, am i a joke to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U

Doesn't Lithuanian have tonal components? That has to be worst then Polish.

man I find german harder than polish