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On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:02:07 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Sunday 11 October 2009 15:55:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Well, at least now we know that English contains at least one word that |
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> > is less ambiguous than the German equivalent. |
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> > I would not have thought it could be done. |
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> English contains many ambiguities, but if you know the current idiom they |
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> all disappear, or at least recede. The difficulty is in keeping up with |
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> the idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the last 60 |
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> years or so and to hell with the trendies. |
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> Things like "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is". |
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English is a mess. As a language it's worse than a pig's breakfast and makes |
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almost no sense whatsoever to non-native speakers. Mind you, it makes about as |
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much sense to native speakers as well :-) I had to take 5 years of Latin study |
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in high school to understand how my own mother tongue works. Sad indictment |
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for a language wouldn't you say? |
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I heard once that Perl is modelled after English. Pah! I reckon that's BS - |
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Perl makes much too much sense for that. Brainfuck is the one modelled after |
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English :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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