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On 2009-10-11, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's |
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> breakfast and makes almost no sense whatsoever to non-native |
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> speakers. Mind you, it makes about as much sense to native |
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> speakers as well :-) I had to take 5 years of Latin study in |
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> high school to understand how my own mother tongue works. Sad |
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> indictment for a language wouldn't you say? |
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At least we mostly got rid of the whole gender mess and only |
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have to worry about objective/subjective case for a few cases. |
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During a mostly futile attempt to learn German, I had occasion |
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to read Mark Twin's essay on Germain articles. IIRC, plotting |
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out all of the combinations for "the" takes something like a |
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3x9 grid |
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! What I want to find |
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at out is -- do parrots know |
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visi.com much about Astro-Turf? |
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