As the title says, this popped into my head while walking to my home being showered with subzero frozen rain.
Modern english is just an creole language of 5 different european languages and made super easy to mix the conflicts between those languages. Thats why its so easy to learn for most people.
One comment I heard from a native french speaker is that the “dictionary is much larger” than french. Which makes sense because English incorporated many french words.