[cyn]

too complicated, Mark Twain was right -- esp hard for those who can't understand basic war strategy and keeping a united front with dictators. Here's a diplomatic statement for Pres Bush to tell Chirac:

"I'd help you, but I don't like you."
"Je vous aurais bien aide, mais je ne vous aime pas."

[r9etb]

Mark Twain was right

Never trust Germans on matters linguistic:"THE AWFUL GERMAN LANGUAGE",

"Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. One is washed about in it, hither and thither, in the most helpless way...."