It seems that the article found some bits of the language which are genuinely unique (&quot;in conjugation only third-person singular changes&quot;) but these are so specific as to be irrelevant. If English had no way of expressing the conditional, for example, that would be genuinely interesting.<p>As it is, it reads like a teenager talking about their uniqueness because only they like eating peanut butter and ice cream while listening to Leonard Cohen.