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Posted By: Sigma <biccat@hotmail.com> In Response To: Re: G1- one in a hundred (yet again)... (Bloodrain)
Date: 12 June 2001, 16:22
> OK, first off, all languages are "seething with error and
> patternless, scattershot confusion." For instance, there is no rhyme
> or reason to why most nouns are assigned masculine, feminine or neuter
> gender in the languages that do so.
> English has managed to do away with a lot of relatively unnecessary
> vocabulary in favor of syntactic structures. We don't need nominative,
> genetive, dative, subjunctive or any of those other cases for nouns -- why
> decline a noun when you can get the proper meaning from sentence
> structure? (To be accurate, we do still decline pronouns: I, me, my; he,
> him, his; etc.) Why should a table, a tree or a car need a gender?
> Maybe it's a little tougher for those who come from languages where the
> vocabulary carries all that meaning... but in the end, it's simpler, isn't
> it?
no, not really. But lets not worry about how hard (or easy) english is to learn...personally I got an A in French and a C in English when I was taking the class, you figure out which one is easier :)
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