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On Montag 12 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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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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which makes english a horrible, horrible language. |
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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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it is always hard to go from chaos to order. |
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