On 9/5/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
On 9/4/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
On 9/4/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
It depends on what you mean by a simple language. English is second only to Chinese in its simplicity.
Oh, c'mon. That old prejudice? Is English really more complex than Japanese, or Sumerian and Akkadian and Sanskrit? I greatly doubt it.
Huh? I think you misread what I said.
Apparently. Chinese is far from simple, so the only logical way I could read it was as sarcasm and understatement. What did you mean?
By virtue of their historic development and grammar English and Chinese are linguistically among the simplest languages. Why would you say that Chinese is not simple?
Ec
Because of articles I've read like these: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/skozerow/langdiff.htm http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ewbaxter/howhard.html
~maru