How would you define "simple" -- Personally I'm not sure that I'd say that any natural language is simple.
Fran
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 10:42 -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
It depends on what you mean by a simple language. English is second only to Chinese in its simplicity.
Ec
Akash Mehta wrote:
That would make sense at the least. English has always been seen as overcomplicated, as opposed to simple languages like German (maybe thats why de wiki has so many contributors?).
On 9/4/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/4/06, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
HoI, Thanks for the positive apreciation of the Dutch and Belgian effort. There is no positive meaning to the word slut.. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slut
Thanks, GerardM
I think it was meant to be humorous, since normally *English* is the slut of languages, as has been pointed out because of its indiscriminate importation of words. At least, that's how I read it.
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