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To: BatGuano

Our beautiful language is beautiful because of the rules regarding structure, spelling and punctuation.


No. That is definitely not the reason. Many other languages have much stricter and cohesive rules. The reason English is beautiful is because of the many choices for sentence structure and the huge vocab. Of all the languages I’ve studied, we have the worst spelling and pronouncing “rules.” By far.

French is beautiful because of the descriptiveness, the art of it. German is extraordinarily useful with infinite ways to branch sentences. We combine the best of both.


112 posted on 02/22/2017 11:31:43 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Our language is for people who care to learn how to spell. Does that make it the “worst?” I don’t agree with you.

French is for people who care to learn the “gender” of the word. BTW, That is the only correct use of the word gender. We now use it to replace the word “sex.” (:-c)

German is a descriptive language that makes up words, unusually Looooong words.


115 posted on 02/23/2017 11:00:15 AM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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