On 9/4/06, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
On 9/4/06, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)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
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