OK, then you’re just wrong. Sorry.

Creoles aren’t even considered fully fledged languages, which is why there is a word for them as a concept, so including them would be wrong. Many of them are also just a mix of a local language and English. They might disappear, or evolve to full languages.

You must have gravely misunderstood many things here, for you can’t possibly really believe that the language of Haiti (to take a very obvious and well-known example) isn’t a “fully fledged language” (whatever that’s supposed to mean) or that it has any risk of disappearing (greater than any other language).

I don’t know the Maltese language, but that description is still more coherent than what has gone down with English whose grammar rules are all over the place.

While it’s true that also English has borrowed some grammar from other languages (as most languages have, to varying degrees), that has, as far as I’m aware of, all been from related Indo-European languages, not even close to requiring the amount of duct taping of Maltese. Can you think of even a single example of an English grammar rule that doesn’t come from another Indo-European language?

My personal favourite, which goes much, much further in the duct taping department by taking essentially the entire grammar from one language and a majority of the vocabulary from another, together with uncountable other influences, would be Maltese.

But there are many others, not least all the world’s creole languages.

English is the most duct-taped together language,

I’m sorry, but if you truly believe that, then you must have a very limited knowledge of the languages of the world. English is not very unusual in this regard.

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“All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.”

Simon Tatham wrote this several decades ago, but I still think it’s all excellent advice:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

Even if you’re not technical, it should be possible for you to learn how to write a good bug report if you’re interested and as a longtime developer I can tell you from experience that a really good bug report is a real delight to receive.

Documentation is always needed. If you have any aptitude at all for explaining things to people, it’s almost certain that you’d be able to help there.

If you don’t know where to start, I can recommend starting with making a tutorial for doing whatever it was that you yourself last found difficult to learn how to do.

That really doesn’t explain anything about why you didn’t have the dentist (or even pretty much anyone else) do it for you instead.

I’m only a dude, but I’ve actually partly dremeled out one of my teeth before, no anesthetic, to drain an abscess that wasn’t about to drain itself.

That is patently insane, you can not just write that without mentioning anything about what circumstances could possibly have led to you being in a position where you had access to a drill but had no option but to operate it yourself.

Were you the last survivor on a research station on Antarctica in the middle of winter where the entire crew died of tooth abscesses leaving you the last man standing and help wouldn’t be able to arrive for months?

I’m struggling to come up with any other scenario where this could possibly happen.

You’re wrong.

All arguments against them have been debunked to hell, if they were at all true we wouldn’t see China now mostly running of of renewables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China

Am I the only one who thinks it’s incredibly weird to introduce a new terminal based mail client without mentioning anything at all about how it differs from any of the already existing and popular terminal based mail clients?

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But that’s not the point, the point is that more than 3 out of 4 people able to read this post don’t live in the US.

[…], only that you can easily see how the mistake gets made without ever calling it chauvinism.

This is the point where I strongly disagree with you, constantly mistaking less than ¼ for being the most likely is not easily made, there’s a good reason for why the expression US Defaultism exists, because a particular mindset is required for such a mistake to be easily made.

Around 1½ billion people in the world know English, less than ¼ of them live in the US.

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I see what you did there!